How to Use routine in a Sentence

routine

1 of 2 noun

• A brisk walk is part of her morning routine.
• The job will be easier once you settle into a routine.
• Grandma gets upset if we change her routine.
• Longstanding habits and routines are scrapped as the sun and Uranus align.
  — USA TODAY, 9 May 2023
• Think of these additions to your routine as changes for the better — no, the best!
  — Paige Stables, Allure, 1 Oct. 2023
• At what age should a teenager start a skin care routine?
  — Jenn Barthole, Glamour, 17 Jan. 2024
• The wind and rain may have impeded many parts of the area’s daily routine.
  — Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2024
• Late-night talk shows have been part of the national routine for decades.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 27 Sep. 2023
• Here, the best spa headbands to upgrade your at-home self-care routine.
  — Sophie Dweck, Town & Country, 8 Aug. 2023
• How to Brush a Toddler’s Teeth Getting a routine down is key.
  — Jessica Booth, Parents, 10 Mar. 2024
• Just like our skin, our scalp requires a healthy routine.
  — Celeste Polanco, Essence, 12 Feb. 2024
• Add the hip thrust to your workouts while still doing deadlifts as part of your routine.
  — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 17 July 2023
• Zelensky grabs his crotch like Michael Jackson and borrows the mime-in-a-box routine from Bip the Clown.
  — Simon Shuster, TIME, 4 Jan. 2024
• Pam craves adventure and dreams of life beyond the pond routines.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Dec. 2023
• Set to an upbeat tune in the key of Kander and Ebb, the song climaxes in a dance routine with trash can lids for tap shoes.
  — Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
• That and the eye gels—that’s usually my morning routine.
  — Lindy Segal, Glamour, 26 July 2023
• And a slice of toast with almond butter. Tell us about your workout routine.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune Well, 13 May 2023
• This gift is great for the coffee or tea lover in your life—this set will complete their drink-making routine.
  — Enjanae' Taylor, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2023
• If the answer is no, making small adjustments to your routine can go a long way.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• For 37-year-old mom of two Jaclyn Walker, back-to-school routines have come back into full swing.
  — Lizann Robinson, ABC News, 13 Sep. 2023
• Part of my routine includes trying to squeeze in a nap on most afternoons.
  — Mayo Clinic News Network, Anchorage Daily News, 17 July 2023
• Before using it in your skincare routine, test it on a patch of skin to see how your skin reacts.
  — Jillian Brewster, Redbook, 17 Aug. 2023
• But see, Cold Crush came with so many routines and different rhymes, that began to change things.
  — Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 17 Nov. 2023
• The exercise is very scalable, making is a great pick for anyone to add to their routine, Sung says.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 31 Aug. 2023
• Some examples: Add front squats to your routine and target your quads, and do back squats to work your glutes and hamstrings more.
  — Women's Health, 1 June 2023
• The unfamiliar people and routines can be scary for them.
  — Pamela Kruger, Parents, 18 Dec. 2023
• The singer, 35, offered a look at her in-flight travel routine in a post shared on Instagram Wednesday.
  — Nicholas Rice, Peoplemag, 13 July 2023
• Then Kreischer decided to post a clip of the routine on his Facebook page in 2017, and the rest is history.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 4 June 2023
• Attend conferences and events outside of your routine or industry.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• Even though Chris Squire’s thunderous bass is somewhat low in these mixes, Progeny offers illuminating insight into the touring routine of a band that, at that time, appeared to exist in a permanent state of grace.
  — Ernesto Lechner, SPIN, 11 Apr. 2024

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routine

2 of 2 adjective

• The more you do it, the more routine it becomes.
• They hire high-school students for routine work such as filing.
• The surgery has become a very routine operation and poses little danger.
• Data entry becomes routine very quickly.
• He criticized her routine absence from important meetings.
• There could, by routine process, be at least 60 hours to debate whether to have debate.
  — James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2023
• For Lec, at a certain point, the threat of the apocalypse must have seemed as banal and routine as the dawn of a new morning.
  — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2024
• There are gift sets for the person who lives by their skin care routine, and cult-favorite hair care from brands like Olaplex.
  — Malia Griggs, SELF, 27 Nov. 2023
• Rodgers fell to the turf on a routine play early in the first quarter, stood briefly, then sat down, a look of disbelief on his face.
  — Christopher Maag, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2023
• One of the big trade-offs, of course, is that someone else is doing 90 percent of the routine maintenance.
  — Dusty Parnell, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
• Children this age do well with routine and knowing the limits.
  — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 7 Mar. 2024
• But this hearing itself promises to be fairly brief and routine, and then over and done.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 13 June 2023
• Hamm and his firms have been sued a handful of times over the past decade in what appear to be routine legal disputes, court records show.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2024
• Mix up your routine One of the most common reasons for hitting a plateau is sticking with the same workout for too long.
  — Dana Santas, CNN, 8 Mar. 2024
• In many ways, this is like pre-paying for your car's routine maintenance needs.
  — Steven Glass, Car and Driver, 9 June 2023
• In some cases, routine tasks such as shooting 4K video clips could cause the new iPhone to run noticeably hot.
  — Chris Velazco, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
• With Alcaraz serving and seemingly on his way to a routine hold at 40-15, Medvedev managed to reel him back him in to deuce.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2023
• To place the 25 chips in Bussard’s brain, surgeons performed a routine craniotomy to remove a piece of his skull.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 15 Apr. 2024
• But when these workers get hurt — and they get hurt with such frequency that it’s considered a routine part of the job — the laws are stacked against them.
  — Maryam Jameel, ProPublica, 20 Dec. 2023
• Police in Phoenix, Arizona, pulled over a pickup truck in a routine traffic stop.
  — Chuck Stevenson, CBS News, 20 Dec. 2023
• Also, McHenry could also start to just perform the routine tasks of the Speakership.
  — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 12 Oct. 2023
• Together, these products are the perfect duo for those looking to take their hair care routine to the next level.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 27 July 2023
• The phone app is so responsive that there’s really no downside to using it instead of the key fob for routine things.
  — Dan Carney, Popular Science, 1 Feb. 2024
• With time running out and the game on the line, a routine play can become an anxiety-inducing trial by fire.
  — Tom Siegfried, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024
• Her desert ordeal began with a routine stop for gas, albeit in a striking landscape.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2024
• Pros: Affordable, easy to work into a routine; good de-stressing exercise; can be used on the body as well.
  — Neha Tandon, Glamour, 13 Sep. 2023
• Sightings of great white sharks are now routine along the Cape's popular Atlantic beaches.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 19 Aug. 2023
• To avoid irritation, add it to your routine one to two times a week and gradually work up to nightly use.
  — Jasmine Gomez, Women's Health, 9 Sep. 2023
• That said, a contact lens exam can almost always be performed at the same time as your routine eye exam.
  — Nicole F. Roberts, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• What that results in is people not getting access to routine health care screenings.
  — Detroit Free Press, 23 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024