How to Use busywork in a Sentence

busywork

noun

• Students were given busywork for the last few minutes of class.
• The map makes the game look like it's filled with open-world busywork.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 6 Dec. 2021
• Soon, Astrobee will take some of the busywork of space life off their hands.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2017
• The puzzles become busywork rather than tools to build suspense.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 23 May 2024
• With fewer patients coming in at the beginning of this, though, there was lot of busywork.
  — Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 29 June 2020
• Slack is here to help growing businesses like Ari Bikes grow without the busywork.
  — The Team At Slack, Quartz, 9 Aug. 2024
• The Assistant’s long-term aim is to eliminate all this busywork.
  — Farhad Manjoo, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2016
• Ephraim is wary at first, then obedient, then angry; what does all this busywork serve, other than Thomas’s own ego?
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 17 Oct. 2019
• The new missions are merely more of the same busywork, with a superficial layer of pressure added.
  — Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2020
• Your days are an endless loop of busywork and panic projects, thanks to a manager who is reactive and short-sighted.
  — Lisa Bodell, Forbes, 3 June 2021
• That might be fine for busywork situations where the quality of the output isn't paramount.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 30 July 2024
• Others insist that busywork drains time for play, family and sleep, or causes kids to resent school.
  — Stephanie H. Murray, The Week, 6 Sep. 2022
• Then again, the repetitive deliveries can just as often feel like drudgery or even busywork.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 1 Nov. 2019
• Yesterday brought a new Bloomberg report that Sony was tasking some of its smaller studios with doing Naughty Dog busywork.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 10 Apr. 2021
• Many of my clients have found, in their new work-from-home worlds, that in past years, much of their time has been spent on unnecessary activity, from busywork to social media scrolling.
  — John Duffy, CNN, 10 Oct. 2021
• By mixing some of the best features of comics, video games, and animation, Florence tells a sweet and memorable tale that isn't belabored with a lot of fluff or busywork.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 15 Feb. 2018
• But now scientists have discovered a new type of fat cell in the body that does the same thing, burning energy and producing heat with pointless busywork.
  — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 15 Aug. 2024
• False Urgency Supervisors might create a sense of fake urgency in the same vein of busywork.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• Burying yourself in mindless busywork is not the solution.
  — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 17 Mar. 2020
• But optimists believe that AI is here to augment our work for the better, cutting out busywork and drudgery so that people can spend more time on ideas and creativity.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
• Windmills aside, there are too few special twists to State of Decay 2’s world and upgrades to justify what quickly becomes survival busywork.
  — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 22 May 2018
• The prospect of outsourcing mental busywork to an AI assistant has also attracted the crypto crowd.
  — Robert Stevens, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2022
• While the storytelling may hit a few bumps along the way, Forspoken is a memorable tale and, as game worlds grow increasingly larger and full of busywork, a lesson in what matters more than size and scope.
  — Josh Broadwell, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2023
• This included one short opening mission, one run of the new Scorn Onslaught, a few busywork quests, about 12 conversations with people and one final quest on a Gambit map.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
• The bad Some interactive elements feel like mere busywork.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 15 Feb. 2018
• All three try to indoctrinate newcomer Tim (Kyle Beltran) into their cheerful, mundane habits, as if busywork were the sum of the burden of recovery.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2019
• That last point calls for the most up-to-date tech and cutting edge implementations that stand to make creative work more productive, namely by nixing as much busywork as possible.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 18 Mar. 2024
• As assistants described it, much of the job was taken up by an Olympic level of busywork geared toward not setting Rudin off — whether that meant getting his food order exactly right or making sure a document was handed to him in the right font.
  — Benjamin Wallace, Vulture, 4 Aug. 2021
• Cutting back on busywork With generative AI, ad creatives will spend less time on rote tasks and more time working strategically, marketing experts said.
  — Megan Graham, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2023
• For example, workers were less distracted by pointless meetings and open office settings and were able to focus on meaningful tasks rather than being burdened by busywork.
  — Christina Maslach, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 23 Feb 2025