A Sisyphean task perhaps—but worth a go all the same.

Sisyphean or not, it's a job that has to be done.

And if life were Sisyphean, then what point in continuing with it?

"We have more than a Sisyphean task ahead of us," he said.

It has also turned my search to find place to live into a Sisyphean task.

Imagine if that $3.6 billion in law enforcement money went to something less Sisyphean.

Trying to remove all oil from the gulf would be a Sisyphean task.

And meeting the requirements is the most Sisyphean of tasks.

Some might worry that we are engaged in a Sisyphean struggle.

The point and the value of this Sisyphean repetition lie in the effort to understand.

Despite happiness’ apparently Sisyphean nature, there may be ways to increase satisfaction over the long term.

And now the last bit of Sisyphean bad news.

In other words, movie development works along Sisyphean lines.

It is a Sisyphean task that to date has produced a response rate of only 17 percent, bank officials say.

But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs.

Just deciding where each item should go seemed a Sisyphean task.

Trolling for notes every few months can be a Sisyphean task.

But before that can happen, the museum has to get the rock here, and that's proving a Sisyphean task.

The group had just cleaned the same area two weeks earlier, so there was a Sisyphean quality to the endeavor.

But that made it all the more noble, in a Sisyphean way."

There is enough other work to be done without embarking on this kind of Sisyphean task.

Fighting corruption seemed like a Sisyphean task, with little to show for hard, lonely work.

Today, their task has never seemed more vital, or more Sisyphean.

The task is Sisyphean, and the Democrats have little to show for it.

Over the past decade, they have embarked on a Sisyphean legal struggle for the right to return home.