Sentence examples for as a workaday from inspiring English sources
Not as a workaday annex of its hedonistic neighbor, Miami Beach, but as a cosmopolitan center in its own right.
On the music scene, Mr. Stack registered as a workaday bassist, a valuable commodity in a town of frontmen and lead guitars.
Her tool was LinkedIn, the social network for business professionals that is often perceived as a workaday cousin to the social butterfly of Facebook.
(John McClane in "Die Hard" is the arguable exception, though as a workaday cop, he proves to have a disbelief-suspending amount of lethal expertise).
"Top Gear" began as a workaday BBC road-test show in 1977, but since a 2002 relaunch it has become an increasingly anarchic mix of exotic-car hijinks, celebrity driving challenges, international adventure, wacky stunts and pointed car reviews.
In cross-examination, Mr. Hacker described the shredding of documents -- the central act in the criminal case -- as a workaday event in the accounting industry, one that is necessary to keep auditors from being buried in paperwork.
There is also a 14th-century castle owned by Jools Holland and a workaday marina, about as far from Cowes in its social atmosphere as it's possible to get.
But the reason that the Kentucky Derby is difficult to handicap is that in addition to the unusual size of the field — twenty, which is two or three times as many entrants in a workaday race — none of the mostly very young horses in the field have ever experienced anything like a hundred thousand people, some well lit, singing "My Old Kentucky Home" at the top of their lubricated lungs.
From 1862 to 1864, from June to early November, Lincoln used the cottage as a pastoral, workaday sanctuary from the swampy downtown of the capital.
Burmese Kitchen: Located in the Tenderloin district, this one didn't have as much personality as the other two — it struck me as a more workaday downtown lunch spot, a bit dark and gloomy.
Based in Dallas, he travels the country lecturing to lawyers and judges about how to avoid being "a workaday hack," as he put it to 150 New York lawyers the other day.
