Sentence examples for at a menial from inspiring English sources

He works at a menial job building highways but carefully changes into a suit at a hotel before returning home.

Ah woe for the dead! woe for the living wanderer, who dwelleth in some foreign land, an outcast and vagabond at a menial board, sprung though he is of a famous sire!

She and her husband, Lev, have come to Canada as D.P.'s, displaced persons, survivors of German work camps who have been offered, at a menial level, the chance to remake themselves.

He works twelve hours a day at a menial job to pay for his food.

As we continue to look at programming as a menial skill to be outsourced to developing nations, we will lose our innovative superiority as well.

Most of them would rather have no job at all than a menial one.

Profumo continued his association with the settlement for the remainder of his life, at first in a menial capacity, then as administrator, fund-raiser, council member, chairman and finally president.

At age 14 he landed a menial job at KVOO radio in Tulsa, and he was soon doing voice work there.

Leavitt began work in 1893 at the Harvard College Observatory in a menial capacity as a "computer," assigned to count images on photographic plates.

"Because of his having a menial job at best.

After he left the Marines, Hackett held a menial job at an oil refinery for 15 months.