Sentence examples for on this errand from inspiring English sources

If we honor the ties that bind us to one another, we cannot in good faith send our fellow citizens on this errand of folly.

If, when she embarked on this errand, the words and sentences had been whirling around in her head, they had got themselves in order en route.

When the Scyths came to Sparta on this errand Cleomenes was with them continually; and growing somewhat too familiar, learnt of them to drink his wine without water, a practice which is thought by the Spartans to have caused his madness.

6 He was therefore summoned by Sextus on the pretext that he should give an account of the grain and money of which he had been in charge; but instead of obeying, he seized and killed the men sent to him on this errand, and after first negotiating with Caesar, surrendered to him the island, the fleet together with the army, and himself.

Ted, last minute, realizes that sending him out on this errand was a ruse and runs backs to save his beloved chair.

He doesn't say who took him on this errand, but given the amount of time his mom apparently spends on Pinterest, we wouldn't be surprised if she wanted to try a new recipe.

Russell said he rushed off on this "humble errand".

"Five years ago, we embarked on this exact errand, and you were insufferably jolly.

Sometimes junior doctors get sent on this prentice errand to the wards.

A friend described seeing them crossing London with Mary's straitjacket on her arm, 'walking together [weeping together] on this painful errand'.

The shy, freckle-faced new congressman promptly hurried away on the errand.