Sentence examples for on a fool's errand from inspiring English sources

Don't waste time on a fool's errand or a long shot.

Critics claim he's on a fool's errand with little chance of success and call on him to spend more time on other matters.

Former state Republican Chairman Mike Schroeder, one of Munger's Orange County antagonists, said Munger was on "a fool's errand" to mute the party's large conservative faction.

At the time, he appeared to many to be on a fool's errand, given that Harvard had only one outright second-place finish in its history (1970-71, behind perhaps the best Ivy team ever, the 28-1 Penn Quakers).

Clearly, she was on a fool's errand.

But they're on a fool's errand.

Other scientists feel the IAU took on something of a fool's errand.

That might be one definition of a fool's errand, the primary fool being Anse Bundren, a stubborn, suspicious and toothless Mississippi farmer who insists on burying his wife, Addie, in her hometown.

"Like the home he lives in, Dermot is out there on his own," his publisher, Peter Fallon, said on the publication of A Fool's Errand.

Miller and his team quickly came round to the conclusion that battling Facebook head-on was a fool's errand.

He prefers playing carping spectator to President Barack Obama's unconstitutional war against ISIL than to take responsibility for sending our armed forces abroad to risk that last full measure of devotion on a fool's errand---like the Vietnam War.