workaday

How To Use workaday In A Sentence

• An affectionate arm around the shoulders, a warm and reassuring hug, a gentle touch upon the arm, even just an understanding glance, are enough to drive away the blues and kindle hope in a heart beset with workaday cares.
• The result: a spare, jagged, supremely efficient novel (183 pages) that, although utterly lacking in exposition, lays bare an entire world of workaday lowlifes trying to get by on the fringes of organized crime. New Fiction
• They are something much more eerie and ethereal, a coming together of cosmic forces and imagination that leaves the workaday world behind. Times, Sunday Times
• On a workaday basis, it doesn't matter much, to be honest.
• ” Like most four-year-old boys, George left his house like a pebble from a slingshot, careening off parked cars, brownstone gates, fences placed to protect young trees (apparently not just from urinating dogs), and pedestrians prickly from too little coffee or too much workaday dread. Excerpt: The Whole World Over by Julia Glass
• But they are vastly outnumbered by packs of a more workaday character.
• Cope, like all the best poets, has the ability to twist the mundane and workaday into something new and enchanting. Times, Sunday Times
• Why Everybody Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay ', explains: "Finance, like other forms of human behaviour, underwent a change in the twentieth century, a shift equivalent to the emergence of modernism in the arts - a break with common sense, a turn towards self-referentiality and abstraction and notions that couldn't be explained in workaday English. Johann Hari: How Goldman Sachs Gambled On Starving the Poor - And Won
• But she also appreciates her surroundings and her community, and looks for her place among the sloping streets and workaday routines.
• His glazed style puts a good shine on a workaday plot. Times, Sunday Times