How to Use quotidian in a Sentence

quotidian

adjective
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  • Before the kids head back to school, the temps drop, and the busy quotidian sets in: get away!
    — Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Two months later, the deaths were found to be the work of a much more quotidian source: Heat.
    — Shannon Osaka, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
  • His chief concern is the language of the sublime, the embrace of awe, how to transcend the quotidian crush of our lives.
    — William Giraldi, The Seattle Times, 4 Feb. 2018
  • But my belief is that the quotidian killer apps will come.
    — Jaron Lanier, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2024
  • But part of the answer, too, is in the very things that are meant, in theory, to transcend the vagaries of quotidian concerns: our art.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 22 Apr. 2018
  • The book is quotidian Prince: Readers see the artist in his day to day more than the larger-than-life figure shrouded in mystery.
    — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2019
  • Loren Cameron, a transgender portraitist who captured some of the quotidian aspects of trans life, died late last year at the age of 63.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2023
  • So far, so fairy tale, but the story drifts back into the quotidian details of village life.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2019
  • There is evil in the theological sense; there is evil in the quotidian sense.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Left-handed Will seemed to be more expert at this quotidian task on any sheep farm, according to the videos the palace posted.
    — Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 11 June 2019
  • The shapes may be quotidian, but the effect is exalted.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 19 July 2019
  • To an outsider, the ideas may seem fairly quotidian, the kind of slogans that are widely embraced by companies all over the world.
    — Christopher Leonard, ProPublica, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Themes include the more quotidian aspects of the landscape: strip mall signage and cell towers.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Instead of a haunting silence, there is the quotidian hum of traffic.
    — Nabih Bulos, latimes.com, 5 Feb. 2018
  • As the mom of two small kids with a demanding job, my life is both quotidian and fairly labor-intensive.
    — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Their crimes — shoplifting, playing hooky, smoking pot — may be quotidian, but their sense of alienation is not.
    — J. Hoberman, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2018
  • For me, someone who’s tracking how self-driving cars will shape not revenge plots but the quotidian world, the best bits of the novel come in passing, where Marrs does his world-building.
    — Alex Davies, WIRED, 27 Aug. 2019
  • After all, there were more quotidian matters to attend to.
    — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Messi will hold up his end of the bargain, supplying quotidian brilliance and a fair helping of paranormal thrills along the lines of Friday’s free kick.
    — Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 23 July 2023
  • Some of the shots show quotidian activities, suggesting that life goes on, oblivious to the past.
    — Nina Siegal, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • But that does not mean the play’s heart is not with Lettie, whose quotidian struggles form the bulk of the action, and whose fellow ex-inmate Minny (Charin Alvarez) is there to offer wise council.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Get our daily newsletter Up close, the result will be a steady stream of quotidian benefits.
    — The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019
  • It’s more of a dark flight of fancy, a what-if about letting our helpless, quotidian lives veer into the fringes, into a chaos that is terrifying but freeing.
    — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 20 Jan. 2017
  • It’s more of a dark flight of fancy, a what-if about letting our helpless, quotidian lives veer into the fringes, into a chaos that is terrifying but freeing.
    — Richard Lawson, HWD, 20 Jan. 2017
  • Beyond the quotidian oddities, there are strange things afoot at the factory.
    — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 2 Dec. 2019
  • Living in a neighborhood that’s not supposed to exist anymore creates quotidian concerns as well: How much is the right amount to put into a house that will get torn down?
    — Christopher Flavelle, Bloomberg.com, 2 May 2018
  • The film opens with a series of slightly strange yet quotidian images that place us within the setting: a bunch of rotting fruit collecting in a storm drain, a deer walking down a set of outdoor stairs.
    — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2024
  • What strikes you in leafing through the letters is less Eliot’s passion for Hale than his observations on quotidian topics.
    — Pia De Jong and Landon Y. Jones, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Yet the challenge of our quotidian existence is to behave decently even when the spirit isn’t moving us.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Now imagine performing that quotidian task with a prosthetic hand, or a disruption in the flow of signals between hand and brain.
    — Melissa Healy, latimes.com, 15 Mar. 2018

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