"humble task" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to a job or task that is not particularly glamorous but still needs to be done. For example: "The janitorial staff at the hospital perform a vital but humble task."
Everything satisfies — profoundly, the way a humble task, done correctly, should.
A poignant portrait of a newspaper seller emphasizes the pride he evidently takes in performing his humble task.
It originated in the humble task of herding cattle to market, and yet it is one of the upper classes' most fiercely guarded traditions.
Dedicated to "the humble task of collecting and preserving," he begged New Yorkers for donations of papers — letters, books, tracts, magazines, anything.
These mats by Turtle Mat bring a little glamour to the humble task, in the form of classic prints by Morris & Co.
Instead of trying to build a fancy superstructure of features like older enterprise software companies, it has focused on the humble task list as the the most important feature to help people organize and complete their work more quickly.
Does Crisp' vote, or is he just too grand for such humble tasks?
I was stunned to see my musical heroes engaged in such humble tasks, but it was a message I took to heart.
The uproar over the photograph of Mr. Locke was not the first time the Chinese had been captivated by the sight of a senior American official performing seemingly humble tasks.
Diodes are essential in radios to turn rapidly oscillating radio waves into a smoother direct-current signal that can power a speaker.Rectifying a signal sounds like an altogether humbler task than amplifying it.
The American scholar and critic Frederick Ahl has undertaken what he calls the "humbling" task of rendering the Aeneid in a form that matches as closely as possible the lineation of the original while finding an English metrical equivalent for Virgil's hexameters.
