Sentence examples for performed chore from inspiring English sources

Caine shows more appetite for the task; Dench's book, dispiritingly, is "as told to John Miller", and its ticking off of productions has the air of being a dutifully performed chore.

Noreen Moreno said her son, Steven, 15, who attended the same program, had improved in school and now performed chores at home without prodding.

The same word-of-mouth network eventually led Deb to Snowflake, where she performed chores for the environmentally sick in exchange for food.

Mr. Eskew said that the woman had performed chores around the house in Bethesda, Md., on "an irregular basis" and that Ms. Chavez had "provided her with spending money from time to time".

The treatment at Phoenix House is based on what's known as the "therapeutic community" model — in the eighties, this meant that residents, as members of a community that lived and performed chores together, were expected to challenge, badger, and often verbally or physically humiliate one another.

In their co-op, the residents perform chores and arrange for repairs.

Later four men will push four women away from an embrace and then carry them routinely as if performing chores.

He talks of securing a scoring title with all the passion a child musters for performing chores.

But when the time came to stop the mischief, the snakes went away, and the young Mr. Bloomberg would dutifully perform chores for his Aunt Ruth.

When housemates break the rules, they are sent to the "sin bin," a drab room where they are forced to perform chores.

Although Wakamatsu grew up mostly in the Oakland suburb of Hayward, Calif., he spent many summers and holidays in Hood River, performing chores in his grandparents' orchard.