How to Use thankless in a Sentence

thankless

adjective
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  • 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
  • Even in normal times, the job is among the most thankless in government.
    — Massimo Calabresi, Time, 22 May 2018
  • 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
  • Basketball officials have a hard job on the best of days and, at times, a tough, thankless and abuse-laden lot.
    — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 26 May 2018
  • 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
  • So some agents are handing that thankless task to machines.
    — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
  • 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 | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Playing goalkeeper in men’s lacrosse can in many ways be a thankless job.
    — Edward Lee, baltimoresun.com, 14 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • Despite what could be a thankless role as a government stooge, he more than keeps up with the cogs turning around him.
    — Karen Han, Vox, 2 Nov. 2018
  • To be fair, delivering the State of the Union opposition address is a thankless job.
    — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Like it or not, Washington is going to have embrace the thankless task of stabilizing the Middle East through energetic diplomacy and by projecting power.
    — Suzanne Maloney, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2024

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