Sentence examples for menial activities from inspiring English sources
But the evidence also suggests that leaf-sweeping and other menial activities do little to help the unemployed into work, since they don't yield the skills and workplace references that prospective employers want, and may even hinder the job search, since every hour spent sweeping is an hour not spent seeking a job.
In the meantime, our Facebook friends' feeds are filled with a flood of information about the most menial activities in our lives, not a single one of which we had to consciously choose to share.
They followed the instructions of professionals and were readily drawn into facilities to undertake menial activities.
Though I'd been there dozens of times in the past, my experience had always been circumscribed by whatever menial activity I was there to perform.
"It was a point of honor in plantation society that no menial activity was undertaken by anyone but a slave," Stuart writes.
Student attitudes towards cooking have changed: these days it's seen as a creative rather than a menial activity, and becoming a competent cook has both social and health benefits.
Sadler and colleagues noted that new URE students, as apprentices, often begin with menial or "legitimate peripheral activities" (e.g., data collection) that "tend to support" other complex tasks (Sadler et al., 2010, p. 236) tasks.
Thus equipped, he changes his name to Leo, travels to the Continent like the college student he now resembles, has a lot of sex, ingests many drugs and then, tiring of these activities, takes up menial work in a Greek colony catering to New Agey women.
From an ICP's perspective, seeking AAL support means sharing and/or turning over an aspect(s) of care, from a menial task to more complex activity assistance.
They indicated that some activities generally perceived as menial made "huge differences" to how the ASO clients and volunteers experienced the ASO.
By awarding points for completing them, otherwise menial tasks can be turned into compelling activities.
