Example Sentences

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A few years later, scorned by the king, Magellan is limping around Lisbon like a scruffy, taskless animal.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2026

One unscheduled Thursday, I spent the morning drinking tea and reading old newspapers, not sure of how to deal with the chunk of taskless time in front of me.

From Salon • Feb. 10, 2013

From the abyss itself arose a cool odor of moist green leaves, the scent of some unseen blossoms, and around the baking vines on the hot wall the hum of apparently taskless and disappointed bees.

From A Ward of the Golden Gate by Harte, Bret