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How to use casual in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective, noun

Casual means happening by chance. Example: “They only had casual meetings.”

Examples of casual by meaning

adjectiveHappening by chance.

  • They only had casual meetings.

adjectiveComing without regularity; occasional or incidental.

  • The purchase of donuts was just a casual expense.

adjectiveEmployed irregularly.

  • He was just a casual worker.
  • In a moment she had dropped to the level of a casual labourer.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC

adjectiveHappening or coming to pass without design.

  • It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 8, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
  • Hogan assumed the entire creek bed was to be played as a casual hazard, moved his ball out and assessed himself a one-stroke penalty.2012, Jeff Miller, Grown at Glen Garden: Ben Hogan, Byron Nelson, and the Little Texas Golf Course that Propelled Them to Stardom

adjectiveInformal; relaxed.

  • tone in casual interactions

adjectiveDesigned for informal or everyday use.

  • pants in the casual wear collection

nounA member of a group of football hooligans who wear expensive designer clothing to avoid police attention; see casual...

  • At 15, he became a casual: one of the label-wearing, wedge-flicking, swaggering hooligan peacock boys who dominated the north-west when I was growing up.2019 September 14, Miranda Sawyer, “Mark Leckey: ‘There has to be a belief that art has this power, this charisma'”, in The Guardian

nounA person whose engagement with media is relaxed or superficial.

  • Casuals outnumbered regulars in the art-house audience two to one.1972, Lee C. Garrison, "The Needs of Motion Picture Audiences", California Management Review, Volume 15, Issue 2, Winter 1972, page 149
  • Most often, when a series is marketed toward casuals, the loyals feel that their interests and needs are not being met.2010, Jennifer Gillan, Television and New Media: Must-Click TV, page 16

More sentences with casual

  • I put on some red lip and a casual print dress.From the entry lip
  • You can't be so casual. You're in the major leagues now.From the entry major league
  • I stick to casual because ranked lobbies are way too sweaty.From the entry sweaty
  • Janet was surprised at how much casual dating had changed since she was last single.From the entry dating
  • Dude, get with the program! We don't do casual Fridays any more.From the entry get with the program
  • The position advertised a $40 per hour rate, inclusive of the casual loading.From the entry loading
  • The party will be a casual mixer for middle-agers and senior citizens who would like to meet some new friends but also would like to stay low-key about it.From the entry middle-ager
  • Frogmore Stew is especially delicious served outdoors, making it the perfect dish for a casual get-together.Gwen Fowler, “Just What is Frogmore Stew?”, in Discover South Carolina, South Carolina: South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation and…. From the entry Frogmore stew
  • Sweats think that casuals just need to get better at the game.2021 October 13, Zachary Roberts, “How exactly are 'sweats' ruining Fortnite? Addressing the never ending try-hards vs casual debate”, in…. From the entry sweat
  • The casual sadism of trolling was just “lulz,” which shouldn’t be taken seriously.2020 September 30, Helen Lewis, “The Joke’s on Us”, in The Atlantic. From the entry lulz
  • His “fluid casual” collection may become our uniform in a postcoronavirus world.2020 September 11, Guy Trebay, “Jerry Lorenzo, the Designer Behind the Cult Label Fear of God”, in The New York Times. From the entry postcoronavirus
  • The conceptual framework I used for the study is that of serious and casual leisure.2017 June 16, Ribeiro, N. F., “Boxing Culture and Serious Leisure among North-American youth: An Embodied Ethnography.”, in The…. From the entry aprimoration
  • Fika is casual by nature, so there's no need to get fancy.2016, Melissa Bahen, Scandinavian Gatherings: From Afternoon Fika to Midsummer Feast: 70 Simple Recipes & Crafts for Everyday…. From the entry fika
  • Look for a lovely line of luxurious knits and casual wear.2016 January 29, Noah Johnson, “The Complete Guide to New York Men’s Fashion Week”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York…. From the entry resortwear
  • This will reflect how cool, casual and not-at-all-obsessed-with-you-I-swear you are to your prospective Tinderella or fella.2014, Claire Dodson, "Five ways to make the most of Tinder", The Daily Beacon (University of Tennessee), Issue 3, Volume 127, 22 August…. From the entry Tinderella
  • If the AIDS crisis were over, pozphobia wouldn't be so prevalent, so casual, so unconscious even.2014, David Caron, The Nearness of Others: Searching for Tact and Contact in the Age of HIV, U of Minnesota Press, →ISBN. From the entry pozphobia
  • “This is no casual raid, which is more reason to fight smartly.2013, J. K. Barber (Jay and Katherine Barber), Spellbound, 3rd edition, →ISBN, page 26. From the entry swordmistress
  • His effort at maintaining a casual relationship was one of the unworkables in his life.2011, Terry Kay, Bogmeadow's Wish, page 33. From the entry unworkable
  • A Sunday cyclist on a casual ride could have passed me.2010 March 30, Lance Armstrong, Every Second Counts, Random House, →ISBN, page 51. From the entry Sunday
  • Snark, a hybrid of “snide” and “remark," is a biting, casual verbal attack.2010 October 19, Michael Kackman, Marnie Binfield, Matthew Thomas Payne, Allison Perlman, Bryan Sebok, Flow TV: Television in the Age of…. From the entry snark
  • Her pictures were casual, mostly unposed snapshots; any pathos feels less intended.2009 January 9, Karen Rosenberg, “Portraits Taken by the Writer as a Young Woman (in Hard Times)”, in New York Times. From the entry unposed
  • Time-blind societies are more relaxed and have a more casual attitude towards punctuality than their “time-bound” peers.2009, Susan Cartwright, Cary L. Cooper, The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Well-being, page 305. From the entry timebound
  • Golf is a casual outing for the weekend player, with an untailored budget.2008 April 14, “On Course: Ooh, Ah, Fashion”, in New York Times. From the entry untailored
  • And the practice is spreading from high-end impresstaurants to casual local eateries.2008, Bill Corsello, Shelley Gallagher, America's Top Restaurants 2009, page 6. From the entry impresstaurant
  • Moccasins or weejuns were new options for casual footwear, along with canvas athletic shoes.2008, Amy T. Peterson, Valerie Hewitt, Heather Vaughan Lee, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Clothing through American History, 1900 to the…. From the entry weejun
  • When your Reactor is in jeans, you should wear dress pants or a casual dress.2007, Jeanette Henderson, Roy Henderson, There’s No Such Thing as Public Speaking: Make Any Presentation or Speech as Persuasive as a…. From the entry dress pants
  • Casual cropped pants were hardly appropriate attire for a semiformal event.2006, Marcia King-Gamble, Designed for You, New York, N.Y.: Kimani Press, →ISBN, page 32. From the entry semiformal
  • Women wear a variety of outfits in larger companies, from casual geekwear to power suits.2005, David S St Lawrence, Danger Quicksand - Have a Nice Day. From the entry geekwear
  • A hundred drakhmai?” As Himilkon had worked to sound casual, Menedemos worked to sound horrified.2001, H[arry] N[orman] Turteltaub, Over the Wine-Dark Sea, New York, N.Y.: Forge, Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, page 18. From the entry drakhma

Meaning of casual

  1. adjective Happening by chance.
  2. adjective Coming without regularity; occasional or incidental.
  3. adjective Employed irregularly.

Full definition of casual

Questions about casual in a sentence

How do you use casual in a sentence?
Casual is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “They only had casual meetings.”
What is a short sentence with casual?
“tone in casual interactions”
What does casual mean?
Casual means happening by chance.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: casual (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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