How to Use workaday in a Sentence

workaday

adjective

• Their vacation provided a welcome change from their workaday life.
• The engineers here are the ones doing such workaday research, shaving weight off by the gram.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 June 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
• The workaday frustration and bitterness have been burned off.
  — Elaine Blair, The New York Review of Books, 18 Nov. 2025
• But this workaday agenda has been artfully wrapped in therapy-speak.
  — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
• To workaday folks, those international trade deals looked like their exit slips from the middle class.
  — Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 28 May 2017
• There’s also something comforting about the workaday world of A Scene at the Sea.
  — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 27 Apr. 2018
• From brocade coats to workaday dresses, these looks dominated the runway.
  — CNN Money, 19 Feb. 2026
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 experience starts at street level, in a room that’s meant to be a transition between the workaday world outside and the scientist’s domain downstairs.
  — Ann Abel, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
• Yes, deals get done The diary of the workaday sales exec at most of the major distribs is filled with meetings with their acquisitions exec equivalent.
  — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 17 Oct. 2025
• 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
• With the morning’s drama apparently coming to an end with the 0830 all clear, the campus returned to its normal workaday routine.
  — Literary Hub, 7 Aug. 2025
• And while the depth of the game’s overall retail simulation is pretty shallow, there is a sort of soothing, zen comfort to be found in the repetitive nostalgia of that menial workaday world of the past.
  — ArsTechnica, 13 Apr. 2026
• Benjamín Echazarreta’s cinematography is alert to the workaday energy of the hotel as well as the eerie beauty of the setting, with its mix of fairy-tale wonder and bone-deep dread.
  — Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 14 May 2026
• But for the veteran actor-screenwriter-comedian, the destination didn't ring true for his workaday, working-class character.
  — Chris Foran, jsonline.com, 18 Aug. 2025
• 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
• And all were recognized as legitimate, workaday government, even by Resistancers and Never-Trumpers.
  — Christopher Demuth Sr., National Review, 11 Jan. 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
• This isn’t a film about trauma, or smuggled-in social issues, or anything at all, really, besides the honest workaday business of scaring the bejesus out of its audience, rinsing, and repeating with extra vigor.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 16 Apr. 2026
• The exchange reveals the workaday maneuvering involved in creating a website one Tuesday in August 2024.
  — Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 11 Feb. 2026
• 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
• The scenic design by Christopher Swader and Justin Swader consists of Emmy’s sunny living room on the right and the workaday SALAD office on the left.
  — Mary Damiano, Miami Herald, 16 Feb. 2026
• 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
• 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
• That all sounds like the workaday stuff of romantic drama, but A Big Bold Beautiful Journey—its script is by Seth Reiss, who co-wrote the 2022 foodie satire The Menu—takes some wacky swings, all presented with a deadpan flourish.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 19 Sep. 2025