Sample Sentences forsinecure (editor-reviewed)
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The mayor was accused of giving her friends sinecure positions in the government, where they received high salaries for doing very little work.sinecure = a paid job that involves minimal duties
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After retiring from her successful career, Jane was offered a sinecure position on the board of directors, allowing her to continue to contribute her expertise without the demands of a full-time job.sinecure = paid job that involves minimal duties
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He even had a job, a sinecure, more highly-paid than his old job had been. (source)sinecure = a paid position that involves minimal duties
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There is no such position officially, but it sometimes came into existence through necessity, and was the opposite of a sinecure.† (source)
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The something appeared vaguely to his imagination as a private secretaryship or a sinecure of some sort.† (source)
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The average working week was now about twenty hours— but those twenty hours were no sinecure.† (source)
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His job was not a sinecure.† (source)
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He set up a government within the government-by moving the decimal points in appropriations and salaries, sending his speechless enemies to tiny towns in Calabria, and rewarding sycophants with sinecures.† (source)
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That perhaps it was a little indecent that the principal registrar of all, whose duty it was to find the public, constantly resorting to this place, all needful accommodation, should be an enormous sinecurist in virtue of that post (and might be, besides, a clergyman, a pluralist, the holder of a staff in a cathedral, and what not), — while the public was put to the inconvenience of which we had a specimen every afternoon when the office was busy, and which we knew to be quite monstrous.† (source)
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All the Sinecurists.† (source)
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He does have a job in the company library, an undemanding sinecure where he can do a lot of reading without bothering anyone, and occasionally he does a little research for one of the legitimate biologists on the staff.† (source)
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Those who have succeeded in procuring this admirable materialism have the joy of feeling themselves irresponsible, and of thinking that they can devour everything without uneasiness,—places, sinecures, dignities, power, whether well or ill acquired, lucrative recantations, useful treacheries, savory capitulations of conscience,—and that they shall enter the tomb with their digestion accomplished.† (source)
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By some writers this office is called a sinecure.† (source)
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After confessing to these things they had been pardoned, reinstated in the Party, and given posts which were in fact sinecures but which sounded important. (source)sinecures = paid positions that involves minimal duties
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CHAPTER III: RELATES HOW OLIVER TWIST WAS VERY NEAR GETTING A PLACE WHICH WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN A SINECURE† (source)
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Be it said, that in this vocation of whaling, sinecures are unknown; dignity and danger go hand in hand; till you get to be Captain, the higher you rise the harder you toil.† (source)
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