How to Use workaday in a Sentence

workaday

adjective

• Their vacation provided a welcome change from their workaday life.
• There’s also something comforting about the workaday world of A Scene at the Sea.
  — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 27 Apr. 2018
• When the kids are screaming, the dogs are scuffling, the television is blaring, your spouse is cranky, and your workaday world has frazzled your last nerve, the best medicine is — the porch.
  — Marni Jameson, OrlandoSentinel.com, 20 Mar. 2018
• There’s no cellphone service either, so this truly is a place to retreat from the workaday world.
  — Brian E. Clark, latimes.com, 28 Sep. 2017
• For winter, an abrupt volte-face: sweatshirts, jeans, hoodies and loose, workaday suits, in fabrics made to hang easily around the body.
  — Alexander Fury, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2017
• Dark blue urban suits had a long billowing under jacket, the first hint of the exotic and a clear statement that this not your salary man’s workaday wardrobe.
  — Colleen Barry, The Seattle Times, 17 June 2017
• To workaday folks, those international trade deals looked like their exit slips from the middle class.
  — Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 28 May 2017
• While the more workaday Ohio city has a flourishing apparel industry, Nashville has more of what a fashion city needs, for good or ill: glamour.
  — Steven Kurutz, New York Times, 17 May 2017
• And so as Bergh patrolled the city to root out abuse, most workaday people did not see a noble humanitarian so much as a nosy aristocrat.
  — Betsy Golden Kellem, The Atlantic, 10 May 2017
• Ruscha had found his sweet spot: ingeniously redirecting words from the workaday realm of commercial art into the upper stratosphere of art history.
  — Mark Rozzo, Vanities, 30 May 2018
• The driving gimmick is meant to convey a sense of accessible authenticity—someone caught by the camera in a workaday moment.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2018
• Gaultier paired the maison’s famous and luxurious leathers with a more workaday material, denim, for his Western-themed Spring 2009 show.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 30 Jan. 2019
• Then there’s the community room, a drab, workaday gathering spot for employees and visitors that inspires few selfies.
  — Daniel Miller, latimes.com, 12 July 2018
• The essence of melodrama is the revelation of tragic grandeur in everyday life—and the contrast, even the conflict, between the mighty nobility of everyday people’s emotions and the workaday circumstances of their lives.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2017
• And all were recognized as legitimate, workaday government, even by Resistancers and Never-Trumpers.
  — Christopher Demuth Sr., National Review, 11 Jan. 2018
• Mitchell’s most ambitious songs were impervious to musical comparison or reference, the staples of workaday rock criticism.
  — Jack Hamilton, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2017
• Purists might take issue with DuVernay’s approach to turning L’Engle’s words into images, citing workaday complaints about filmmakers taking liberties with beloved childhood classics when shaping those classics into earnest big-screen spectacle.
  — Andy Crump, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Mar. 2018
• Ocean’s 8, directed with workaday flatness by Gary Ross, never revs up an equivalent sort of confidence among its seemingly bountiful ensemble of personalities.
  — refinery29.com, 13 June 2018
• In that regard, at least, producer-director Stanley Nelson’s film does a service, introducing a general audience to Davis’ remarkable narrative, albeit in a mostly workaday fashion.
  — Howard Reich, Detroit Free Press, 18 Oct. 2019
• Sanford, 59 and also a former congressman, has had a solid, mainstream conservative political career and so can be expected to gain more attention from both Republican donors and workaday Republican voters.
  — oregonlive, 8 Sep. 2019

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