How to Use menial in a Sentence

menial

adjective

• Her menial jobs kept her away from home and the kids had to fend for themselves.
  — Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune, 24 July 2022
• Her menial jobs kept her away from home, and the kids had to fend for themselves.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 24 July 2022
• Lindsay is the busser, which seems a bit menial for her, but okay.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 11 Feb. 2021
• Some viewed the menial tasks of running a business as a chore.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2021
• For the next six months, Lang carried out menial tasks on behalf of the Mossad.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
• Mays was 19 at the time of the fire, assigned to menial jobs such as mopping and painting.
  — Megan Rose, ProPublica, 30 Sep. 2022
• These castes run the gamut from menial laborers to those meant to rule.
  — Jack Butler, National Review, 25 Oct. 2020
• Even the most menial job offers a sense of purpose, Levine added.
  — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2019
• Instead, it’s meant to take menial tasks off your hands.
  — Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 9 Jan. 2024
• Sherif was heading to a menial job in a downtown store.
  — Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2021
• Bravo-Brown hasn’t just done the menial work required for a QC coach.
  — Dan Labbe, cleveland, 25 May 2021
• The city is wealthy, and slave laborers from the empire have taken over the menial work.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 2 Aug. 2023
• The lower classes do all the menial jobs, and are issued a dose of soma at the end of each workday.
  — Blaine Cooper, Star Tribune, 10 Apr. 2021
• The company showed that the Uni-One can be used to make menial tasks easier.
  — Evan Williams, Ars Technica, 31 Oct. 2023
• After college came a string of menial jobs: in a record store; in a grocery store; the graveyard shift at a gas station.
  — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
• In the Age of Information, though, piecework need not be menial or low-paid.
  — Robert Zafft, Forbes, 20 June 2021
• The tasks were menial — posting fliers or hanging signs in public spaces — and the pay meager.
  — Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
• Instead, it was tasked with supply jobs and menial labor like most Black troops.
  — Radhika Chalasani, ABC News, 25 Aug. 2021
• The menial cleaning tasks have been checked off—now, time to add some proposal pizzaz.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 24 Nov. 2021
• The life of a 20-something Wall Street number cruncher has always been a grind, marked by marathon workweeks and menial tasks.
  — David Benoit, WSJ, 3 July 2021
• These men and women cooked, cared for the children, and did additional skilled and menial work.
  — Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 16 Feb. 2023
• When the assistant is no longer in the room next door, managers might have to perform menial tasks themselves all of a sudden.
  — Jackie Bischof, Quartz, 18 Apr. 2021
• The cadets, tested and coronavirus-free, took over the menial jobs on the 418-foot Munro, such as washing dishes and cleaning its small boats.
  — Pat Eaton-Robb, courant.com, 16 Sep. 2020
• At their home in Falluja, Iraq, the mother said she was forced to do menial work in tough conditions, while the girl was supposed stay out of the way.
  — New York Times, 30 Nov. 2021
• Creative kids formed friendships and took care of the venue, even volunteering to do menial tasks like sweeping the floors and taking out the trash.
  — Aaron Carnes, Rolling Stone, 30 Apr. 2021
• Haastrup said the surgery, which runs into thousands of dollars, was done free of charge to the parents, who work in menial jobs and would not have been able to afford the surgery.
  — Bukola Adebayo, CNN, 8 Jan. 2020
• Most menial jobs are carried out by Dalits; few office jobs are.
  — Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2019
• Her mother fled Japan when Hirono was 9, bringing her children to Hawaii and working menial jobs for low wages to keep them fed.
  — Washington Post, 19 May 2021
• She was forced to work in a sheltered workshop for less than minimum wage, doing menial work.
  — Whizy Kim, refinery29.com, 6 Apr. 2021
• But this space-age jargon has its origins in menial labor from centuries ago.
  — Ben Zimmer, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024