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US
/ˈtʃɔɹ/
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[ UK /tʃˈɔː/ ]
[ UK /tʃˈɔː/ ]
NOUN
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a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
the endless task of classifying the samples
the job of repairing the engine took several hours
the farmer's morning chores
estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars
How To Use chore In A Sentence
- Moreover, I realized -- experienced, even -- at long last, that "the Body of Christ" is a good deal more than a figure of speech; it is an appalling truth and mystery, uniting us beyond our knowing with one another, and uniting us with an ever greater mystery, the perichoresis ( "circling dance") of the Holy Trinity Who is our One God. Scott Cairns: Recovering the Body of Christ
- The reefs close to shore are alive with pollack, and conger eels when the boat is anchored and during the summer months there are lots of the sleek and fast running blue sharks around.
- I use long lengths of floating row cover, anchored with bricks and stones, on annual and perennial beds.
- Personnel from HMAS Anzac set off to do a tour of Egypt while the ship is anchored near the entrance to the Suez Canal.
- Our ships anchored alongside.
- Slowly it drifts down across the sea-curled weeds, the anchored life of the marine world.
- The decade following saw the first railway train arrive from the East, the first C.P.R. steamship anchored in port, the Klondike "boom," and the great mining industries of British Columbia well under way. Canadian Cities of Romance
- However, for our purposes, we have used a working definition anchored on Haramiyavia, assuming that the unknown intersection between multituberculates and modern mammals is the appropriate break point.
- The floating sunbathing platform anchored offshore. Times, Sunday Times
- That night, we anchored in Geneviz Limani - the Bay of the Genoese - and dined on the poop deck as the moon rose and the sound of the lapping tide echoed against the towering cliffs.
