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How to use routine in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, adjective

Routine means a course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure. Example: “Connie was completely robotic and emotionless by age 12; her entire life had become one big routine.”

Examples of routine by meaning

nounA set of normal procedures, often performed mechanically.

  • Connie was completely robotic and emotionless by age 12; her entire life had become one big routine.
  • It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve.1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC

nounA set piece of an entertainer's act.

  • stand-up comedy routine

adjectiveRegular; habitual.

  • She's being routine.1993, Tristan Hawkins, Pepper, London: Flamingo, →ISBN, page 108

adjectiveOrdinary with nothing to distinguish it from all the others.

  • Stoke put themselves in a fine position to qualify for the Europa League knockout stage with a routine victory over Maccabi Tel-Aviv in Israel.2011 November 3, David Ornstein, “Macc Tel-Aviv 1-2 Stoke”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 11 Jan 2012

adjectiveBoringly predictable, monotonous, and unchanging.

  • I found the work pretty routine.

More sentences with routine

  • That routine should not have used an int; it should be a float.From the entry float
  • My best routine was the one I had practised the least.From the entry least
  • It was a stylish routine, let down by a sloppy dismount.From the entry dismount
  • Interactive programs let the users enter choices and invoke the corresponding routines.From the entry invoke
  • Aneroid and electronic instruments, decalibrate easily and frequently and require routine accuracy checks.From the entry decalibrate
  • All our policies require a declaration of no prior knowledge as a matter of routine.From the entry prior knowledge
  • I have been working hard on my cardio routine to develop a very pronounced Adonis belt.From the entry Adonis belt
  • I hope to see the day that finding virus vaccines is routine and quick.From the entry see the day
  • The contortionist impressed the audience with a perfect headsit during her routine.From the entry headsit
  • They drilled daily to learn the routine exactly.From the entry drill
  • The interrupt caused the packet handler routine to run.From the entry interrupt
  • An efficient process would automate all the routine work.From the entry efficient
  • With his monotonous routine, he lives in dullsville.From the entry dullsville
  • He follows a strict daily routine.From the entry daily
  • He has the routine down pat.From the entry pat
  • The routine that actually changes the paging register must be in an unpaged region; otherwise it will no longer be executable after it has swapped pages.From the entry unpaged
  • In Trump’s Republican Party, Hitlerian language about immigrants and minorities has become routine.2026 March 12, Michelle Goldberg, “I Went to Florida to See the 31-Year-Old Candidate Thrilling Gen Z. We’re in Trouble.”, in The New York…. From the entry Hitlerian
  • Maestra has forced Katya to do the same taxing routine fourteen times since 7 am.2024, Carter Enslein, “Цикл (Cycle)”, in Joey Knizner, editor, Expressions: St. Xavier High School Literary and Fine Arts Journal, number…. From the entry maestra
  • My routine changed in February because I stopped alcohol, caffeine and dairy.2023 May 14, Alix Strauss, “How the Head of a Filmmaking Center Spends His Sundays”, in The New York Times. From the entry dairy
  • Schook said that they rarely return to their previous multistep routines.2023 December 6, Jessica DeFino, “Too Many Products Can Stress Out Your Skin. Here’s How to Scale Back.”, in The New York Times. From the entry multistep
  • “There’s been a shift away from the very old school multi-step routine,” says Hall.2023 April 9, Hannah Coates, “5 K-Beauty Trends To Amp Up Your Spring Skincare Routine”, in British Vogue, archived from the original on…. From the entry skip-care
  • Big disclosures has helped make "holdback evidence” a routine part of homicide investigations.2021, Mark Stobbe, The “Mr. Big” Sting. From the entry holdback
  • Having a good wash routine is particularly important with overnight nappies.2021 April 12, “Night nappies: using cloth nappies at night”, in Summer Sweets Baby. From the entry overnight nappy
  • Overnight nappies are usually the first nappies to show flaws in your wash routine.2021 April 12, “Night nappies: using cloth nappies at night”, in Summer Sweets Baby. From the entry overnight nappy
  • The other priority is getting people to respond well to interventions, especially changes to routine.2020 April 9, Ian Boyd, “We practised for a pandemic, but didn’t brace”, in Nature, volume 580, number 7802, page 9. From the entry unknown
  • Modern mums can download these apps to keep track of feeds and routines.2020 May 1, Ella Walsh, “Boobs, bottles and keeping track of feeds: 10 awesome apps”, in Kidspot, News Corp Australia. From the entry nappy pin
  • They started to make connections and to play with the routine, adding complexities and difficultating it.2019, Dana Frantz Bentley, Mariana Souto-Manning, Pre-K Stories, page 86. From the entry difficultate
  • The nine-to-five routine could certainly be sweetened by a robocolleague to sweat your boring stuff.2019 May 8, Mark Blunden, “Artificial intelligence will mean more jobs for humans, not fewer”, in Evening Standard, page 16. From the entry robocolleague
  • Online gaming communities develop their own language, history, routines, and relationships.2015, Aaron M. Duncan, “Shifting the Scene to Cyberspace: Internet Poker and the Rise of Tom Dwan”, in Gambling with the Myth of the…. From the entry community
  • The routines at Lochranza Court suited her down to the ground and she loved her friends.2015, Andrew O'Hagan, The Illuminations, →ISBN, page 117. From the entry suit down to the ground
  • “Oh, please, like we'd ever believe that whole 'I'm asking for a friend' routine.”2015, Belle Payton, Even the Score, page 70. From the entry asking for a friend
  • Routine marked out the path of the shepherds and the flock ovinely followed.2015 [1938], “Forty years of evolution theory”, in Joseph Needham, Walter Pagel, editors, Background to Modern Science, reprint edition…. From the entry ovinely
  • I did the usual bad drunk routine; cried a lot, moaned about my life.2014, Kim Cayer, chapter 4, in Lights! Camera! Dissatisfaction …, Alresford, Hampshire: Roundfire Books, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry blotto
  • The daily routine of the Hofkapelle was normally entrusted to the Kapellmeister.2014, Sterling E. Murray, The Career of an Eighteenth-Century Kapellmeister: The Life and Music of Antonio Rosetti, Boydell & Brewer…. From the entry kapellmeister

Meaning of routine

  1. noun A course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure.
  2. noun A set of normal procedures, often performed mechanically.
  3. noun A set piece of an entertainer's act.

Full definition of routine

Questions about routine in a sentence

How do you use routine in a sentence?
Routine is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “Connie was completely robotic and emotionless by age 12; her entire life had become one big routine.”
What is a short sentence with routine?
“She's being routine.”
What does routine mean?
Routine means a course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: routine (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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