Washing the dishes, e.g

Usage examples of chore.

He pulled on a dirty blue parka, the sort every Alaskan wore for outdoor chores, and set a rabbit-fur hat on his head.

They would do fine, handling detection chores for the entire company during this lull while the autochthones regrouped and licked their wounds.

I got back up and came through to hit my list of daily cover maintenance, local chores, local work and real mission.

For reasons entirely unclear to Kerry, Thomas contrived every despicable, backbreaking chore he could throw at him, from maneuvering an ancient plow behind two old oxen, to duping him into climbing to the top of Din Fallon in search of a haggis nest.

That minor chore taken care of, he moved along the stations, backmost first, working quick and quiet, replacing the used sweet-sheets with new, strapping fresh sheets to the board at each occupied station.

At the beginning Ellen wondered how she was ever going to complete the complex chores that lay ahead preparing three people for departure to scattered parts of the world, selling the Bethesda house, and getting her new house in order.

The sound yanked her out of that household chore like a bluefin tuna pulled out of the Chesapeake Bay.

I guess none of the Bowditch kids ever had to earn their allowance by doing lawn chores.

Once Cora finished her chores she joined Ramelle on the back veranda overlooking the beautiful formal garden.

The half-elf was on his heels by the door, there being no place else to sit, fletching arrows with the absent skill of one who performs the chore as much to pass the time as to keep his weapons in good order.

Although stress had undone inclination and appetite, Arithon wrapped himself in the damp folds of his cloak and pursued the chore of addressing survival and sustenance.

Adam remembered the words of his teachers, that the only way to bring meaning to chaos was through the laws laid down at Sinai, the halakah, the complex matrix of deeds that transformed the chore of living into an act of worship.

Desperate for a column of his own, Mark despised the weekly chore of extracting the material out of Househusband and writing up the results himself.

Glancing up from these chores, he saw that Magali had taken a seat on the bed and was picking at the folds of her skirt.

At first the tour amused him, but eventually it began to sour him on himself, and he took to spending more and more time on a balcony overlooking the courtyard that was shared with the connecting house, listening to the Newari women sing at their chores and reading books from Mr.