The phrase "routine errands" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to regular or common tasks or duties that are performed on a regular basis. Example: I spent my morning running routine errands such as grocery shopping and picking up dry cleaning.
He walks four to six miles as a result of routine errands and his route between a West Side apartment and work.
While sitting in the driver's seat is an extravagant privilege, something doesn't seem quite right about taking this car out by yourself to run routine errands.
He lowered his profile, often driving to more distant communities to run routine errands.
Little Brothers, a nonprofit that operates in a number of U.S. cities, including Philadelphia and Boston, pairs volunteers with seniors who need help getting groceries, rides to appointments and other routine errands.
This confines the practical use of the Leaf -- or, importantly, any other pure electric BEV -- to motorists with either (a) more than one vehicle available as alternate wheels, (b) an inviolable daily route within the bounds of the battery's range under worst-case circumstances or (c) iron discipline in planning use of the electric cars for routine errands and trips, so as not to run out of juice.
You could also replace it with a secondhand seat when you're using your bike for commuting or routine errands.
Mr. Goodman announced his plan to attack Mr. Harris, as if it were a routine errand.
I'd completed this routine errand several times before without incident.
Too many moments when you hop in the car after a routine errand, turn on the radio and hear heart-stopping news.
"Confronted with sudden disaster," Didion writes, "we all focus on how unremarkable the circumstances were in which the unthinkable occurred, the clear blue sky from which the plane fell, the routine errand that ended on the shoulder with the car in flames".
I recognize now that there was nothing unusual in this: confronted with sudden disaster, we all focus on how unremarkable the circumstances were in which the unthinkable occurred, the clear blue sky from which the plane fell, the routine errand that ended on the shoulder with the car in flames, the swings where the children were playing as usual when the rattlesnake struck from the ivy.
