Routine in a sentence as a noun

By May, I reached my goal on all three accounts, so she switched me to a routine more focused on free weights.

They know enough to put down their phones or iPads for the important moments, or even the routine ones.

The next lot are stupid and lazy -- they make up 90 percent of every army and are suited to routine duties.

It was routine on the proprietary Unix boxes I was working with for someone to have built all the GNU stuff and left it in /usr/gnu/bin for use.

Is claiming that his "pre-lesson routine" can always be dismissed as two minutes of Googling disingenuous and patently false?

Routine in a sentence as an adjective

You don't have to be scared: this is routine and, while it doesn't feel like it, you're actually in very good position, both absolutely and relative to many other people.

Ah, the lesser seen cousin of Poe's Law: any sufficiently confused exchange on the Internet is indistinguishable from an Abbot and Costello routine.

The rise of in-house lawyers was in part a reaction to the high cost of outside services but, in time, those lawyers were also used routinely to "manage" the outside firms by keeping their billings in line, among other things.

On the heels of the failure of a project where I have spent weeks building up for, I will quickly force myself to do routine molecular biology, or general lab tasks, or a repeat of an experiment that I have gotten to work in the past.

Changes made during H-Blank could make for some interesting effects - it was used for things like the circle that closes around Mario at the end of a level of Super Mario World: The rectangle draw routine is used, but the size of the rectangle is changed between scanlines, creating a circle.

Routine definitions

noun

an unvarying or habitual method or procedure

noun

a short theatrical performance that is part of a longer program; "he did his act three times every evening"; "she had a catchy little routine"; "it was one of the best numbers he ever did"

See also: number turn

noun

a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program

See also: subroutine subprogram procedure function

adjective

found in the ordinary course of events; "a placid everyday scene"; "it was a routine day"; "there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute"- Anita Diamant

See also: everyday mundane quotidian unremarkable workaday