How to Use task in a Sentence

task

1 of 2 noun
  • Our first task is to review the budget.
  • Step back to map your tasks and set a kinder pace for your body.
    Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2026
  • Robots will switch tasks on the fly.
    Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Choose a task and finish it with heart!
    Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Ask them to walk you through the task slowly.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 27 May 2026
  • Aburn's task is to produce more of that.
    Roxanne Robinson, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Yet most of these gains stop at the task level.
    Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Getting your home ready for sale is no small task.
    Cori Sears, The Spruce, 27 Jan. 2026
  • So our task—all of us in this room—is simple.
    Julie Finch, Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Nakonechna said such tasks are no longer easy for her.
    ABC News, 27 May 2026
  • What task or work the dog has been trained to perform.
    Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Pick a task that fits your available time, skills, and tools.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 May 2026
  • Taking care of this task right away will give you peace of mind.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Adding subitems to a task takes only a click when the task is open.
    Ruben Circelli, PC Magazine, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The task now is to finish what was started.
    Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 27 May 2026
  • Finding the right gift for Mom can be quite the task.
    Casey Delbasso, ABC News, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Melting that by force would be no simple task.
    Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 21 Apr. 2026
  • That’s a tall task but a really fun one.
    Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Trainor was up for the task of making the space work.
    David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 27 Sep. 2025
  • And each comes at the task in different ways.
    James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2026
  • That might seem like a simple task, an easy venture.
    Miami Herald, 11 Mar. 2026
  • But the task is easier said than done.
    Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Use the snips for this harvesting task.
    Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Sep. 2025
  • That is a huge, daunting task that won’t happen overnight.
    Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026
  • In practical terms, the task was huge.
    Eric Boodman, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Dastmalchian is up to the task, though.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Because agents have to read, use tools, and reason through their tasks.
    Zev Fima, CNBC, 6 May 2026
  • Use this guide to clean it in one day or to break up tasks throughout a longer time frame.
    Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 26 Sep. 2025
  • For some tasks, AI alone performs best.
    William Warr, Time, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Enhance does a much simpler task.
    Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 29 Apr. 2026

task

2 of 2 verb
  • I have been tasked by the host with bringing the pies for Thanksgiving this year.
  • Lee has been tasked with leading that process.
    Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 30 Sep. 2025
  • It’s sort of been tasked with trying to keep us engaged.
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Burger tasked me with swapping out the chip.
    Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Harris was tasked to write a statement of faith.
    Adam Duxter, CBS News, 19 Mar. 2026
  • One band member on the road with her has been tasked with handling her props.
    Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 24 June 2026
  • But only one man is tasked with learning from those moments.
    Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Goldstine will be tasked with making sure that works.
    Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2025
  • That’s what [Alex] has tasked itself with doing.
    Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The theft sparked a manhunt by the drug dealers who had tasked him with moving the drugs.
    Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2025
  • What is the spacecraft tasked with the rescue mission?
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 28 June 2026
  • Then, Hoffman was tasked with the last out of the eighth inning and then the ninth.
    Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
  • They will be tasked with getting Caglianone to lift the baseball more to all fields.
    Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 7 Feb. 2026
  • They’re tasked with developing more than his game.
    Joel Lorenzi, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Hanceville’s new mayor was tasked with mending that alliance.
    Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Talk about Front Range multi-tasking at its finest.
    Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 1 Feb. 2026
  • And Dumond is tasked with working with Ross.
    Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 3 Oct. 2025
  • But Hurtt would be the one tasked with developing him.
    Zach Berman, New York Times, 24 June 2026
  • Blashill is tasked with figuring out his newcomers’ roles on the team.
    Kalen Lumpkins, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The jury is tasked with deciding whether to find the three guilty on charges of mail fraud, wire fraud and bank fraud.
    Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The crew now has about an hourlong break before they're tasked with observing an eclipse.
    CBS News, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Now, the Panthers are tasked with brining their game on their first road trip of the season.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The other piece of a project like this is that you’re tasked with enlisting all of your famous friends.
    Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Mar. 2023
  • With the game tied 3-3, he was tasked with throwing a scoreless inning.
    Kansas City Star, 17 June 2026
  • Ujiri will be tasked with building a team around the 19-year-old superstar.
    Jim Barnes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 May 2026
  • In response, the state sent in a strike team tasked with using nonlethal methods to chase the wolves away.
    Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The group was tasked with preparing the couple’s housing.
    Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2026
  • The Society tasks her with righting wrongs.
    Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Chavez is tasked with guiding a bullpen that projects to be a legitimate weakness.
    Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The military, of course, has done an incredible job with what they were tasked to do.
    ABC News, 12 Apr. 2026

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