How to Use rote in a Sentence

rote

1 of 2 noun

• There’s a rote to their randomness — is there any freedom in their flight?
  — Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2021
• The second half of the show felt a little rote because something changed over the past 18 months in terms of access.
  — New York Times, 27 Sep. 2021
• At both the school and college levels, rote-learning dominates.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 23 Dec. 2021
• Out with the rote, in with the creative Routine contract lawyers—those who write out standard submissions—will be the first to see their jobs go, Fuller anticipates.
  — Byjane Thier, Fortune, 6 June 2023
• Often, a Thanksgiving meal is full of traditions, which are great, but can also feel a little rote.
  — Christopher Michel, Country Living, 14 Nov. 2022
• The same question came up with the current owners during a press conference in early 2020 and the Savage folks provided the same answer almost by rote.
  — Bryce M. Towsley, Outdoor Life, 9 Dec. 2020
• There’s been much chatter about the potential uses of A.I. in hiring, from helping to eradicate biases to extinguishing rote tasks.
  — Amber Burton, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2023
• The show’s ever-present wordplay and confusing rhyme schemes disorient the listener, wearing them down before forcing them to internalize every line by rote.
  — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 31 Aug. 2021
• Cutting back on busywork With generative AI, ad creatives will spend less time on rote tasks and more time working strategically, marketing experts said.
  — Megan Graham, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2023
• That might be comforting to some, but makes for a rote, unsurprising film.
  — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 24 Dec. 2025
• Learning the rules of music theory by rote could seem tedious.
  — JSTOR Daily, 26 Nov. 2025

rote

2 of 2 adjective

• But don’t expect a rote run through the talking points.
  — Stefene Russell, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Nov. 2022
• Clarkson’s passes used to be of the fairly rote version.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Nov. 2022
• But, when writing about her own life, Beach gets stuck in the mode of rote self-deprecation.
  — Tyler Foggatt, The New Yorker, 19 July 2023
• The real at-risk workers are those in rote, repetitive jobs.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 23 Dec. 2023
• And if that view becomes rote, bursts of sunflowers pop up all along the wide but nearly shadeless path.
  — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Aug. 2022
• Even at that time, such rote learning wasn’t fashionable.
  — WSJ, 21 June 2023
• Alas, as was the case for rote-essay writing, whatever appetite for change the shock inspires might prove to be short-lived.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2023
• Then there were some rote questions and answers about life in prison, innocuous talk about my sister’s two teenage sons.
  — Christian Wiman, Harper’s Magazine , 14 Dec. 2022
• But for the most part, their use is confined to a small set of rote interactions, such as being asked to turn off the lights or give a weather report.
  — Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2023
• The same goes for the rote screenplay by Scott Teems (Halloween Kills), which provides none of the dark wit that might have enlivened the outrageous storyline.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 May 2022
• Audiences seemed too busy being immersed to mind that the movie’s story was pretty rote.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 16 Dec. 2022
• That special comes along in the form of Michael Keaton, who slides into the film about a third of the way through its running time and changes it from a rote action vehicle into a waltz of sorts.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 20 Aug. 2021
• Recently, leaked clips of gameplay have been circulating that have been mocked by some as a bit too rote and generic.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 5 Feb. 2023
• Majors does justice to the role by giving it more than another actor in a more rote version of this movie would have given.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2023
• In this moment, Cantor failed to cloak his childlike fandom in rote professionalism—and sports fans around the world loved him for it.
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 19 Dec. 2022
• And Fincher very much does, in this gleaming genre exercise: not quite rote but still familiar.
  — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2023
• Now, everything that has become so rote to these characters can still have a sick novelty to Tom.
  — Kevin Sullivan, Robb Report, 22 Nov. 2021
• Murphy's antics are supposed to be funny, but the film strikes a sour note throughout, and the action scenes don't do much to enliven the rote proceedings.
  — Elliott Smith, EW.com, 10 Jan. 2023
• Worse, O’Connor anchors Emily’s artistic coming-of-age to a rote romance with a hunky curate who also tutors her in French.
  — Mark Olsenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2023
• News outlets usually rely on rote pictures for banks in the news, said Davidov, who also works at a venture fund.
  — Katia Porzecanski, Fortune, 18 July 2023
• Their mission is one of mutual aid, but after several years, the work has become rote and thankless.
  — Lauren Leblanc, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Mar. 2023
• The novel presumably filled in the blanks to build an engrossing tale, one that here comes across as a rote suspenser, complete with jump scares and a violent climax.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Nov. 2023
• Less reliant on rote learning, the whole language approach has often been backed by progressives.
  — Jill Tucker, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 June 2022
• What might have been a rote zombie story is instead a character study that includes Phoebe Waller-Bridge among its admirers.
  — Alex Barasch, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
• Emoji really can speed things up in the office, and slapping a ❤️ or a 🎉 on a message can make a rote communication feel friendly and fun.
  — Lora Kelley, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2023
• Few billionaires achieve success by following the rote path, but many have received guidance from the adventurers of years past.
  — Michael McMullen, Forbes, 30 June 2022
• The irony is that technologies themselves—simple rote tools—are largely neutral.
  — Literary Hub, 21 Jan. 2026
• More problem solving and less rote repetition.
  — Ben Churchill, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2025
• But over the years, Miss Universe began to feel rote, routine, outdated, boring even.
  — Laura Trujillo, USA Today, 29 Nov. 2025
• What once was an offense dictated by feel and smarts has turned into a rote exercise of clank.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 27 Nov. 2025