How to Use thankless in a Sentence

thankless

adjective

• Still, the job of setting the story straight is a thankless one.
  — Sameer Gadhia, Rolling Stone, 27 Apr. 2021
• But for the most part, recent drug movies are a thankless drag.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2020
• Balfe gives a thankless role her all as the lone woman in this boys' club.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 6 Sep. 2024
• What compelled you to sign up for a thankless job like this?
  — Matt Stevens, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2022
• Being a wrestling coach in high school is a thankless job.
  — Mort Mazor, sun-sentinel.com, 5 Nov. 2021
• The most important, thankless job in the world, being on a school board.
  — The Enquirer, 22 July 2021
• There are thankless jobs, and then there is Li Li Leung’s job.
  — Alice Park, Time, 13 June 2019
• Even in normal times, the job is among the most thankless in government.
  — Massimo Calabresi, Time, 22 May 2018
• Somehow, Keeler agreed to sign on for the thankless role and off the show went to out-of-town tryouts in the summer of 1940.
  — New York Times, 30 Mar. 2022
• Nick Foligno’s played a thankless role on the fourth line all season.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2022
• For a brewery, in fact, lager can feel like a thankless labor.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 31 Jan. 2020
• Jessie Buckley, as Wynne’s wife, has an even more thankless role.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2021
• These thankless performers save our hands from the high heat of our ovens, ranges, and grills, but not all mitts are made alike.
  — Wendy Vazquez, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Jan. 2023
• Miranda Richardson has the thankless role of Churchill's wife, who has to put up with those cigars and mood swings.
  — The New York Times, NOLA.com, 2 June 2017
• Miranda Richardson has the thankless role of Churchill’s wife, who has to put up with those cigars and mood swings.
  — Mick Lasalle, kansascity.com, 1 June 2017
• Salazar brings life and charm to a role that, in another biopic, could have been pretty thankless.
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023
• Who in their right mind would ever want this thankless job and all the front office baggage that comes with it?
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2022
• Basketball officials have a hard job on the best of days and, at times, a tough, thankless and abuse-laden lot.
  — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 26 May 2018
• My sister was OK with playing this thankless role for so long but not tonight.
  — Nikki Volpicelli, Glamour, 11 May 2017
• Tommy Lee is a thankless role, but Mr. Stan gives it an arena-rock ride.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 1 Feb. 2022
• And many are thankless jobs, like the poor security staff who get beat up all day.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 July 2019
• So some agents are handing that thankless task to machines.
  — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
• Traveling with young kids and babies can be a tough and thankless task.
  — Popular Science, 12 June 2020
• Soon enough, Ivanka was on the witness stand, once again in the thankless role of cleaning up her father’s mess.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2023
• Thanks for the thankless task of worrying about the network in the middle of it all, and for being my guest today.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Mar. 2023
• The endless grind of thankless tasks makes her second-guess herself.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The New Republic, 20 May 2021
• Giving a response to a State of the Union is difficult and often thankless work.
  — CBS News, 30 Jan. 2018
• The death of Crumby, the wounds to Morin, bring home what a hard, dangerous, often thankless job these men and women have.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 29 Mar. 2023
• Nick Bailey makes the most of the thankless assignment in a spot-on performance.
  — Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 1 Feb. 2018
• In many ways, Biden has been handed the thankless task of shepherding the United States into a new era of global politics.
  — Emma Ashford, Foreign Affairs, 20 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024