How to Use quotidian in a Sentence

quotidian

adjective

• Before the kids head back to school, the temps drop, and the busy quotidian sets in: get away!
  — Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2019
• Two months later, the deaths were found to be the work of a much more quotidian source: Heat.
  — Shannon Osaka, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
• His chief concern is the language of the sublime, the embrace of awe, how to transcend the quotidian crush of our lives.
  — William Giraldi, The Seattle Times, 4 Feb. 2018
• But my belief is that the quotidian killer apps will come.
  — Jaron Lanier, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2024
• But part of the answer, too, is in the very things that are meant, in theory, to transcend the vagaries of quotidian concerns: our art.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 22 Apr. 2018
• The book is quotidian Prince: Readers see the artist in his day to day more than the larger-than-life figure shrouded in mystery.
  — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2019
• Loren Cameron, a transgender portraitist who captured some of the quotidian aspects of trans life, died late last year at the age of 63.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2023
• So far, so fairy tale, but the story drifts back into the quotidian details of village life.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2019
• There is evil in the theological sense; there is evil in the quotidian sense.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 6 Aug. 2019
• Left-handed Will seemed to be more expert at this quotidian task on any sheep farm, according to the videos the palace posted.
  — Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 11 June 2019
• What's truly wild to me is how quotidian this trial feels.
  — Tia Yang, ABC News, 28 May 2024
• The shapes may be quotidian, but the effect is exalted.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 19 July 2019
• To an outsider, the ideas may seem fairly quotidian, the kind of slogans that are widely embraced by companies all over the world.
  — Christopher Leonard, ProPublica, 8 Aug. 2019
• Themes include the more quotidian aspects of the landscape: strip mall signage and cell towers.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2019
• Instead of a haunting silence, there is the quotidian hum of traffic.
  — Nabih Bulos, latimes.com, 5 Feb. 2018
• As the mom of two small kids with a demanding job, my life is both quotidian and fairly labor-intensive.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2023
• Their crimes — shoplifting, playing hooky, smoking pot — may be quotidian, but their sense of alienation is not.
  — J. Hoberman, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2018
• For me, someone who’s tracking how self-driving cars will shape not revenge plots but the quotidian world, the best bits of the novel come in passing, where Marrs does his world-building.
  — Alex Davies, WIRED, 27 Aug. 2019
• For something as simple, quotidian, as throwing a ball, we were forced to spend countless hours doing it.
  — Andrew Reiner, Baltimore Sun, 16 June 2024
• If only the creators would have stuck with the quotidian tribulations that best befit Garfield rather than opting for high-stakes stunts that betray him.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 20 May 2024
• After all, there were more quotidian matters to attend to.
  — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2024
• Messi will hold up his end of the bargain, supplying quotidian brilliance and a fair helping of paranormal thrills along the lines of Friday’s free kick.
  — Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 23 July 2023
• Some of the shots show quotidian activities, suggesting that life goes on, oblivious to the past.
  — Nina Siegal, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• But that does not mean the play’s heart is not with Lettie, whose quotidian struggles form the bulk of the action, and whose fellow ex-inmate Minny (Charin Alvarez) is there to offer wise council.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 17 Apr. 2018
• Get our daily newsletter Up close, the result will be a steady stream of quotidian benefits.
  — The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019
• It’s more of a dark flight of fancy, a what-if about letting our helpless, quotidian lives veer into the fringes, into a chaos that is terrifying but freeing.
  — Richard Lawson, HWD, 20 Jan. 2017
• It’s more of a dark flight of fancy, a what-if about letting our helpless, quotidian lives veer into the fringes, into a chaos that is terrifying but freeing.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 20 Jan. 2017
• Beyond the quotidian oddities, there are strange things afoot at the factory.
  — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 2 Dec. 2019
• That research led Taylor’s team to pick up quotidian details underscoring how life works in such a difficult climate.
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2024
• Foreign policy has rarely been a mass electoral issue, crowded out by more quotidian concerns, including jobs, inflation, and welfare.
  — Milan Vaishnav, Foreign Affairs, 18 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024