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How to use routinely in a sentence

40 example sentences · adverb

Routinely means in a routine manner, in a way that has become common or expected. Example: “We routinely test the fire extinguishers but no one ever expects them to fail.”

Examples of routinely by meaning

adverbIn a routine manner, in a way that has become common or expected.

  • The risk of going out of business was very real, they had suffered disastrous presidents, routinely lost their best players, and were effectively owned by a bailed-out bank, so Lim was welcomed as their saviour.2017 January 18, Sid Lowe, “Chaos at Mestalla: Valencia's journey from Champions League to utter disarray”, in The Guardian

adverbDone by rote or habit, as part of a routine, without attention or concern.

  • We routinely test the fire extinguishers but no one ever expects them to fail.

More sentences with routinely

  • Women, as well as children, have their thoughts or emotions routinely silenced.From the entry silence
  • Annuities are being routinely mis-sold to unsuspecting clients.From the entry mis-sold
  • Annuities are being routinely missold to unsuspecting clients.From the entry missold
  • Real estate agents in the southern U.S. routinely handle questions about the presence of xylotomous insects, primarily termites.From the entry xylotomous
  • Israel routinely claims that the Gaza Ministry of Health, which is run by Hamas, has a tendency to inflate the number of Palestinian casualties in the Gaza Strip.From the entry inflate
  • When it comes to this five-letter word game, many Wordlers routinely turn to the four-letter variety.2022 April 4, Diane Haithman, “New York Times Games Chief Insists Wordle Is at No Loss for Words – at Least, Not Yet”, in Yahoo!, archived…. From the entry Wordler
  • Transphobic feminists routinely pedojacket trans rights activists, so direct your tone shaming appropriately.2020 February 14, @ColinCoxAZ, X [website], retrieved 29 Dec 2024. From the entry pedojacket
  • “Flour” routinely contained crushed stone or gypsum as a cheap extender.2018 November, Deborah Blum, “When Milk Was Full of Calf Brains”, in The Atlantic. From the entry extender
  • Traffic safety is very important, so ropes are routinely controlled by a suitable type of defectoscope.2018, Jaromír Pištora, Michal Lesňák, Jan Valíček, Marta Harničárová, Vladimír Vrabko, “Magnetic Field Distribution Around Magnetized…. From the entry defectoscope
  • We routinely perform radical resections of oesophageal carcinomas with an intrathoracic oesophagogastrostomy.2015 August 12, Yi Shen et al., “Oesophagectomy in a patient with azygos vein continuation of the inferior vena cava: report of a case”…. From the entry oesophagogastrostomy
  • Operators routinely evaluate previously drilled leaseholds to see if more production can be pulled from a field.2014, Carolyn Davis, “Shale Daily column: New-Wave Recompletions Producing More, Costing Less, Say Operators”, in Natural Gas…. From the entry recompletions
  • As a result, decisions to clean up the environment are routinely—and inaccurately—described as hurtful to prosperity.2013, Al Gore, “Outgrowth”, in The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 163–164. From the entry Guangzhou
  • In our laboratory immunophenotyping of acute leukemias is routinely performed from bone marrow mononuclear cell (MNC) preparations.2013 April 30, Elisa Einwallner, Almira Subasic, Andrea Strasser, Dorothea Augustin, Renate Thalhammer, Irene Steiner, Ilse Schwarzinger…. From the entry immunophenotype
  • No longer would Britons routinely blame the national government when things went wrong.2012 September 22, “Innovation in Government: Britain's Local Labs”, in The Economist. From the entry clutch
  • Owners also restricted access to medical care by routinely accusing sick blacks of malingering.2008, Harriet A. Washington, “Southern Discomfort”, in Medical Apartheid, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, page 45. From the entry malingering
  • We routinely apply the term “banana” to certain specimens of curvaceous yellowish soft fruit.2008 January 7, Glen Newey, Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Hobbes and Leviathan, Routledge, →ISBN, page 39. From the entry bananahood
  • In fact, expectant mothers in many sub-Saharan African cultures routinely eat soils (a practice called geophagia).2006 May 27, NewScientist, page 54, column 1. From the entry geophagia
  • Many ADDers become targets for bullies and are routinely harassed at school.1996, David Sosin, Attention Deficit Disorder, page 54. From the entry adder
  • Campus police break up parties routinely, but nobody really gets majorly busted.1984, Joseph Westlund, Shakespeare's Reparative Comedies: A Psychoanalytic View of the Middle Plays, University of Chicago Press, Page 92. From the entry majorly
  • They routinely frack multiple wells at the same time and do so virtually around the clock, which also saves on costs.2026 March 4, Benoît Morenne, “Why American Frackers Aren’t Rushing to Pump More Oil: U.S. shale giants won’t budge from their plans…. From the entry shale
  • After all, the United States has routinely used military force in pursuit of its national interests, unrestrained by global opinion.2025 January 24, Fareed Zakaria, “Is the U.S. a patsy? The premise of ‘America First’ is bizarre. World leaders see America as a country…. From the entry global order
  • Routinely the station warns: seek shelter, stay off the road, its voice a modern stand-in for native foresight.2024 October 4, C.H. Connors, The New Estate, Dorrance Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry Wreckhouse
  • They routinely followed up and visited households to encourage them to sustain safe sanitation practices through affirmative, encouraging conversations.2021 July, R. Iyer, J. P. Shukla, A. Verma, “Community Leave No One Behind: Lessons from a Pilot”, in Sanitation Learning Hub Learning…. From the entry Gandhigiri
  • Active’s crew routinely operate from the Straits of Juan de Fuca down to the waters off Central America.2020 May 20, “Coast Guard offloads $37 million of cocaine in San Diego”, in United States Southern Command, archived from the original on…. From the entry Straits of Juan de Fuca
  • Nellie routinely gushed praise to students for good performance whereas Frank was much more sparing in praising students.2017, Judson G. Everitt, Lesson Plans: The Institutional Demands of Becoming a Teacher, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN. From the entry gush
  • More troublingly, the history above strongly suggests that these structural biases in fact routinely pushed courts to overdefer to police judgment.2017, Harvard Law Review: Volume 130, Number 8. From the entry overdefer
  • Prefrontocortical dopamine levels increase during anxiety and stress fairly routinely.2013, Jay Goldstein, Tuning the Brain: Principles and Practice of Neurosomatic Medicine. From the entry prefrontocortical
  • These guys are sure-handed and smooth, rarely dropping the ball on the field, but routinely doing so off it.2012, Joanne Rock, Sliding Into Home, →ISBN. From the entry sure-handed
  • But only in recent years, experts say, have they begun routinely disenrolling Indians deemed inauthentic members of a group.2011 December 12, James Dao, “In California, Indian Tribes With Casino Money Cast Off Members”, in The New York Times. From the entry inauthentic
  • The autorefractometer is now routinely used as the first approach.2007, Paolo Vinciguerra, Fabrizio I. Camesasca, Refractive Surface Ablation, →ISBN, page 48. From the entry autorefractometer
  • Recent electoral battles in the city had been closely contested, bare-knuckled affairs, each party routinely accusing the other of cheating.2007, Patrick G. Williams, Red River Valley: Beyond Redemption, →ISBN. From the entry bare-knuckled
  • As a result, analysts were routinely selling investors down the river by promoting stocks purely to land banking business from companies.2006 March 4, Joe Nocera, “The Anguish Of Being An Analyst”, in New York Times, retrieved 17 Jun 2009. From the entry sell down the river
  • By then, hundreds of pastors, priests, and rabbis were routinely distributing their sermons via iTunes in a phenomenon someone dubbed "godcasting."2006, Steven Levy, The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 247. From the entry godcasting
  • Of the three main characters of the Harry Potter series, only Hermione is so routinely morphed into flawlessness.2006, Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture, volume 31, page 57. From the entry Potterfic
  • I routinely forget the names of my guests.2005 August 19, “Improving Memory”, in NPR. From the entry namenesia
  • Comet Temple-Tuttle is what astronomers call a "periodic comet," one of hundreds that routinely and predictably continue to orbit the Sun.2001 November 8, P. Clay Sherrod, Gian Trotta, “A History of the Leonid Storm”, in SPACE.com, retrieved 26 Jan 2016. From the entry periodic comet
  • If you are the type of person who routinely amasses piles of reading materials, then you could use a prereader.2000, Jeff Davidson, Managing Your Time, page 71. From the entry prereader
  • Women from oppressed peoples routinely find themselves in liberation limbos.1997, Joy Ann James, “Black Feminism: Liberation Limbos and Existence in Gray”, in Lewis R[icardo] Gordon, editor, Existence in Black: An…. From the entry limbo

Meaning of routinely

  1. adverb In a routine manner, in a way that has become common or expected.
  2. adverb Done by rote or habit, as part of a routine, without attention or concern.

Full definition of routinely

Questions about routinely in a sentence

How do you use routinely in a sentence?
Routinely is used as an adverb. For example: “We routinely test the fire extinguishers but no one ever expects them to fail.”
What is a short sentence with routinely?
“Annuities are being routinely mis-sold to unsuspecting clients.”
What does routinely mean?
Routinely means in a routine manner, in a way that has become common or expected.

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