What is "chores"

Usage examples of "chores".

His dad would have a lot of chores for him to do around the place today.

When Mike came home from school he first put his books on the TV in the parlor, second made himself some kind of snack (he was particularly partial to peanut-butter-and-onion sandwiches, a taste that made his mother raise her hands in helpless horror), and third studied the note his father had left him, telling Mike where he, Will, was and what Mike's chores were - certain rows to be weeded or picked, baskets to be carried, produce to be rotated, the barn to be swept, whatever.

He could read both of his parents like books - well-worn and well-loved books - and he was pretty sure he was going to get what he wanted: chores and permission to go to the show Saturday afternoon.

My mother had to stay home and do the chores then, but she insisted that I go.

You'll make yourself sick' And I'd say, 'I wanted to get back in time to help you with the chores,' and she'd give me a hug and a kiss and tell me I was a good boy.

As he did these simple chores, his mind sifted the stories they had told - concentrating the most, perhaps, on what they had left out.

Preparations for the feast wer proceeding, but the mood was of people performing chores by rote or by sheer and dogged obstinacy, with none of the laughter and joking anc excitement that should infect such a task on a da of such historic importance.

Hrrana, Hrrunival and Ourrh had been assigned extra chores by Nrrna as their punishment.

The boys fell to their chores, tantalized by the odors of roasting meat.

Alex asked, one screen dedicated to the stats on the dig, his own hands busy with post-lift chores that some brawns would have left to their brains.

Channa said, glancing up from her own screens to the main viewer before she went back to other chores which she had assumed.

Brannel, fuming, finished his day's chores with the least possible grace.

In the cool of the evening, as he checked off completed chores on his master list, he'd tell her what they'd be doing the next day.

Big, black, powerfuL he loved to lie on branches high up in trees which was not surprising as I was always climbing trees myself, or lurk on sunny rock ledges because I used to hide from chores on such places, and he hated water!

Without a murmur of complaint, she'd done her share of camping chores and had bagged three of the largest beartards, skinned and dressed down the meat properly.