Sentence examples for dull tasks from inspiring English sources

If dull tasks are the target of automation, then many back-office council roles are susceptible.

I've sent him on errands to keep him at bay and given him dull tasks like washing lettuce, hoping he'd give up.

It might seem unnecessary, but the car-park washing lays the foundation for their six-month stint at the establishment, teaching discipline in the face of crushingly dull tasks – the sort they'll be seeing a lot of over the following 196 days.

It beckons a new way of approaching huge, often dull, tasks.

Unlike repetitive and dull tasks, such expressive aspects of musical performance are hard to formalize and realize on real robots.

At present, the Mountain View-based company is best known for its robotic pizza service, which uses automation to perform dull tasks like spreading pizza sauce and potentially dangerous ones like moving pizzas into and out of the oven. .

"It's essentially a dull, boring task," he said of the Quotient system, "so do you want to medicate your child to pay attention to dull, boring tasks?" As I left Dr. Bloch's office with my printed-out assessment, I pondered some questions of my own.

Getting people in and out of rooms must surely be one of the novelist's most irksome tasks: dull to write, dull to read, impossible to dispense with but perversely tricky to make lifelike.

Some officers seek to avoid the dull task of preparing reports; others may fear discipline for errors in paperwork.

Which would add another dull task – fixing them – to a list that currently runs to about 113 items.

The longer they'd spent on the dull task, the more likely they became to bay for blood.