How to Use workmanlike in a Sentence

workmanlike

adjective

• He did a workmanlike job on the boat.
• She showed workmanlike thoroughness in everything she did.
• Much of it, alas, is workmanlike stuff to sell to the many tourists who come in the summer to visit the lake and Niagara Falls.
  — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2018
• Sweden is the ultimate in sort of a one-for-all, all-for-one sort of workmanlike group.
  — SI.com, 3 July 2018
• This is how the Warriors win a workmanlike playoff game.
  — Tim Kawakami, The Mercury News, 2 May 2017
• The metal is workmanlike, but rock is supposed to be a show, and nobody does it better.
  — Adam Lukach, chicagotribune.com, 16 Sep. 2019
• Restoring Hope took his shot and finished where he was supposed to — a workmanlike eighth-place.
  — Fletcher Page, The Courier-Journal, 11 June 2018
• Its workmanlike efficiency is the truest gap between this film and the rest.
  — Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2020
• The goal here is more workmanlike: to assemble the acreage that contains the most oil and to execute the drilling and fracking plan that will pull it out at the lowest cost.
  — Jeffrey Ball, Fortune, 25 May 2018
• Someone like Ben Whishaw would have been able to hold his own in scenes with Weisz, but the workmanlike Claflin recedes to such an extent that the movie tilts toward her.
  — Chris Hewitt, Twin Cities, 8 June 2017
• On the men’s side, Djokovic, the top seed, felt good enough after his workmanlike first-round victory to do a little dancing.
  — James Martinez, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2019
• Frankly, the plot is workmanlike and unmemorable, but the characters and the issues raised give the finale its heft.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 12 Dec. 2018
• The Phillies have praised Eickhoff the last few seasons for his workmanlike attitude.
  — Matt Breen, Philly.com, 9 Mar. 2018
• Until the flood, the Trojans were putting together a workmanlike win.
  — Mark Whicker, Orange County Register, 26 Feb. 2017
• The Patriots won three titles in Tom Brady’s first four years as starter, with a stout defense, and workmanlike offense.
  — Albert Breer, SI.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• Of course, the defense’s late-game faceplant meant the 49ers didn’t emerge with a workmanlike win that would have made the ho-hum offensive performance a footnote.
  — Eric Branch, SFChronicle.com, 17 Dec. 2019
• The Marlins received a workmanlike effort from starter Dillon Peters, who pitched into the sixth before turning the ball over to the bullpen.
  — Clark Spencer, miamiherald, 25 Apr. 2018
• Her blue dress, which sells for $800 on the Scanlan Theodore website, was quite workmanlike in its simplicity.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2019
• But our group’s been able to just maintain the workmanlike attitude and comeback hockey.
  — Eric Stephens, Orange County Register, 20 June 2017
• It’s hard to imagine this workmanlike oration igniting a fist fight, let alone the civil war that follows it.
  — Misha Berson, The Seattle Times, 19 Sep. 2017
• The Cardinals went to Cincinnati with an attitude and a workmanlike sense of purpose.
  — Bob McManaman, azcentral, 9 Oct. 2019
• Dallek’s is a workmanlike addition to the literature on Roosevelt and covers all the bases.
  — David Nasaw, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2017
• These Saints didn't beat themselves and played the game the way it was meant to be played, with poise, workmanlike efficiency and youthful enthusiasm.
  — Jeff Duncan, NOLA.com, 20 Jan. 2018
• And the Spartans’ workmanlike 27-0 victory assured next week’s game against Maryland on senior day in East Lansing will be for a bowl berth.
  — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 23 Nov. 2019
• Miami has been one of the surprise teams in the league, adding Jimmy Butler to a cast of unknowns and youngsters who have brought back the Heat’s workmanlike philosophy.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Dec. 2019
• The main story has a workmanlike quality enlivened by a cast that gives extra depth to its characters.
  — Rick Bentley, kansascity, 31 Aug. 2017
• In its second straight New Year's Six bowl appearance, Auburn is taking a more workmanlike approach.
  — James Crepea, AL.com, 28 Dec. 2017
• This is the story of how a solid, workmanlike, organised, hard to beat side became champions.
  — SI.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• Rhian has come to retrieve Villanelle and bring her back to headquarters — by subway, which gives Villanelle plenty of time to snipe at Rhian about her workmanlike wardrobe.
  — Kat Rosenfield, EW.com, 1 June 2020
• The artful shadow puppetry makes other production elements feel all the more workmanlike.
  — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2020

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024