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
• Both governments still mouth the old slogans, by rote.
  — Quico Toro, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2026
• Unlike in a million rote and gritty thrillers of yore, there is no scarcity of love in this picture.
  — Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 11 July 2025
• 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
• At both the school and college levels, rote-learning dominates.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 23 Dec. 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
• Learning the rules of music theory by rote could seem difficult and tedious.
  — JSTOR Daily, 26 Nov. 2025
• Job aids such as step-by-step checklists will keep you from just doing those things mindlessly, by rote, or going on autopilot.
  — Bruce Tulgan, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024
• Anything done by rote in any white-collar job will be eventually taken over by AI.
  — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 22 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Both automations worked as intended without any major hiccups, which bodes well for freelancers who want to reduce rote tasks.
  — Alison Barretta, PC Magazine, 4 Aug. 2025
• It’s meant to be a familiar dynamic but edges uncomfortably into the predictable, the rote.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 20 Sep. 2024
• After Ford trotted out the assembly line, skilled mechanics and engineers had to learn to go through rote motions.
  — Matt Beane, Harvard Business Review, 22 July 2024
• Better to outsource rote paperwork than to descend into nuclear warfare.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 8 May 2024
• Better to outsource rote paperwork than to descend into nuclear warfare.
  — Byjane Thier, Fortune, 27 May 2023
• In an office augmented by AI, numerous rote tasks could be automated.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
• These actions seem like a very natural fit for agentic workflows to achieve a high degree of automation for rote tasks needing no human intervention.
  — Jason Andersen, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
• After that second trip, my mind felt revitalized—a precious experience since motherhood had reduced so much of my brain to that rote caretaking.
  — Sara Gaynes Levy, Vogue, 19 Jan. 2024
• 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
• Those at risk of having to find new roles include operations and support staff who mainly deal in rote processes like setting up accounts, fraud detection or settling trades.
  — Hugh Son, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2025
• The offseason is the time for the best descriptive stats — how a player actually performed in the prior season beyond rote fantasy numbers.
  — Michael Salfino, The Athletic, 19 Feb. 2025
• There’s too much focus on rote problem solving, prioritizing classification of problem type and knowledge of the one valid approach.
  — Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
• Nothing is done by rote in such a sophisticated operation, after all, and the results reflect at least some elements of emphasis.
  — Kansas City Star, 29 Apr. 2026
• For many couples, AI’s role will be limited to more rote activities like budgeting or managing schedules.
  — Madeline Fitzgerald, Quartz, 20 Dec. 2024
• 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
• In addition to the business benefits, employees are finding their work much more exciting and satisfying than the old culture of rote and never changing tasks.
  — Martin Zwilling, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2024
• Traditional tests that require rote memorization fall short in evaluating AI-era skills.
  — Beata M. Jones, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
• For white-collar workers, automation could mean less time doing rote or technical tasks, and more time spent on creative or strategic work that artificial intelligence cannot do — yet.
  — Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 26 July 2023
• Sakamoto was a savvy and thoughtful performer — never doing anything by rote, often improvising, aware of his audience and in playful conversation with them.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2024

rote

2 of 2 adjective

• Paula’s many roles also keep the series from feeling too rote.
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 27 May 2026
• Asking the same, rote questions each day says otherwise.
  — Shelbie Witte, The Conversation, 12 Aug. 2025
• Yes, the rote tasks are evaporating and in the mix, many of us will be unemployed.
  — Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
• But as the tournament opens, all of it feels rote and bloated, like a list of big-event boxes to be checked off.
  — Luke Cyphers, Sportico.com, 11 June 2026
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Audiences seemed too busy being immersed to mind that the movie’s story was pretty rote.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 16 Dec. 2022
• 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
• The irony is that technologies themselves—simple rote tools—are largely neutral.
  — Literary Hub, 21 Jan. 2026
• 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
• Less reliant on rote learning, the whole language approach has often been backed by progressives.
  — Jill Tucker, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 June 2022
• Perhaps that explains her perfunctory, somewhat rote speech — which still didn’t detract from the joy of her win.
  — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2026
• 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
• This isn’t rote A-to-B automation, either.
  — Sergii Denysenko, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
• 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
• 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
• More problem solving and less rote repetition.
  — Ben Churchill, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2025
• 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
• Other workers in jobs with similarly rote duties will follow in short order.
  — Byjane Thier, Fortune, 6 June 2023
• Invest in tools that compound capacity, automate the rote work and let humans do the human work.
  — Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
• 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
• But over the years, Miss Universe began to feel rote, routine, outdated, boring even.
  — Laura Trujillo, USA Today, 29 Nov. 2025
• Both automations worked as intended without any major hiccups, which bodes well for freelancers who want to reduce rote tasks.
  — Alison Barretta, PC Magazine, 4 Aug. 2025
• No one tell him consistency isn’t supposed to be flashy, that outrageous production isn’t supposed to be rote.
  — Mirjam Swanson, Oc Register, 29 Sep. 2025
• Gone are the days of rote memorization and one-size-fits-all problem-solving—but that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
  — Alex Vance, Parents, 23 May 2026
• Still, if anything, the result will be seen as a rote victory that only feeds any anti-Canes narrative out there.
  — Miami Herald, 23 Nov. 2025
• Purists complain that players have become over-reliant on rote memorization, that games have become too even, predictable, and dull.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2021
• 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