workaday
Example Sentences
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The boring, workaday tasks of running his career and mindfully negotiating parenthood with Taketa are among the episodic A-plots leading the season.
From Salon
In the beginning, there was the wharf, the rudimentary, workaday pier built to get goods from here to there.
From Los Angeles Times
An earlier building was destroyed by shelling during World War II. The small wooden church that replaced it was put to more workaday uses in Soviet times, when religion was suppressed.
From Seattle Times
Then, 50 men identically dressed in truncated gray suits and khaki overcoats entered in rows and, cued by the ringing of a taskmaster’s bell, performed workaday activities like typing and eating lunch.
From New York Times
Because while workaday musicians might not have the glamour of a star soloist, they are no less essential to the ecosystem.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.