Sentence examples for a bootless errand from inspiring English sources

Second-guessing the complexities of Eddie Jones's attacking strategy is often a bootless errand.

The robb'd that smiles steals something from the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.

A crew of divers was scheduled to start cleaning the seaweed off the net in preparation for winter, although now it seemed like a bootless task, given that Keiko might never come back.

And the "Keep Austin Weird" moniker, which aims to preserve the city's artistic and musical appeal, has increasingly become a bootless cry, as high prices expel that group too.

Only when his own reelection in Pennsylvania is threatened does he defect, when the Republicans are in disarray and descending the polls like a bootless mountaineer on a scree slope.

Evites sit in an in-box, signaling an undone errand.

In 1981 came "Philosophical Explanations", which contains a famous chapter asking a seemingly bootless question, "Why is there something rather than nothing?", as well as chapters on personal identity and on free will.

The candidate was on a domestic errand.

The present study therefore examined the impact of thermal induced pain on a simulated errand task.

A nameless hero is sent on a mysterious errand.

Weren't you instead on a smuggling errand?