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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• It is often said that the gabbai (sexton) in a synagogue has the most thankless job.
  — Norman B. Gildin, sun-sentinel.com, 9 Dec. 2021
• Krall's job can be a thankless one as he was tasked to shed salary before the Reds' 2022 season that was delayed thanks to a MLB lockout.
  — Joe Harrington, The Enquirer, 15 Mar. 2022
• Bertie works a thankless job where she feels ignored by the preening men around her and dreams of opening her own bakery.
  — Jenna Scherer, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2021
• To be a woman creative is to often have a thankless career.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 3 Feb. 2021
• For many, hitting the road early for Thanksgiving, turned out to be thankless.
  — Adriana Diaz, CBS News, 22 Nov. 2019
• Life as a tour guide is often a thankless task, and when groups were large enough, the firm would pair me with another guide and bus to double us up.
  — Anonymous, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Sep. 2019
• Paul Ryan then stepped in to perform the thankless duty of being trashed by backbenchers in safe seats and Never Trumpers from the moral high ground of the bleachers.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2018
• What player or coach would want to enlist for such a thankless task that UCLA football has become?
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2019
• Being an American career diplomat is a thankless job, even in the best of times.
  — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2022
• Stanley knows the peaks and pratfalls of one of football’s more thankless positions.
  — Nick Alvarez | [e-mail], al, 24 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024