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
• 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
• 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
• Just as in Fallout, there are usually options for how to sidestep the needs of one group in favor of another, but those options generally involve aligning with an equally needy faction with its own laundry list of busywork.
  — EW.com, 22 Oct. 2019
• One of the biggest pitfalls of this new approach to getting work accomplished is when projects offered to employees represent nothing more than busywork or undesirable tasks where little learning will take place.
  — Edie Goldberg, Forbes, 19 May 2022

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024