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How to use the word routine in a Sentence? Page #11

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That's fairly routine for us.

Craig Rowles

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

They can also be a huge component of structure; helping the dog with their routine, walking the dog, feeding the dog, responsibility, the motivation, for some families, the dog can also be the companion when their sleeping, so they [parents] no longer have to be in the same room because they will now depend on the dog to alert them to a seizure.

Blanca Vazquez

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

When I saw him, I just knew automatically he didn't do that to himself, if he was going to harm himself, his demeanor would have changed. His whole routine, everything, his attitude, everything would have changed.

Lennon Lacy

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It doesn't matter what I feel because it will be like 'They did it again,' it's a routine.

Gregory Myers

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

How dull it is to be back to Tsarskoe Selo again. Our daily routine again - classes in the morning, our hospital, the Grand Palace and a walk in the afternoon, the sisters' hospital in the evening.

Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia

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10 years ago

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

J. Paul Getty

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10 years ago

I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book. The recipes were to be the routine ones: how to make dry toast, instant coffee, hearts of lettuce and brownies. But as an added attraction, at no extra charge, my idea was to put a fried egg on the cover. I think a lot of people who hate literature but love fried eggs would buy it if the price was right.

Groucho Marx

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10 years ago

Routine is the death to heroism.

P. G. Wodehouse

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10 years ago

The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.

John Stuart Mill

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10 years ago

The less routine the more life.

Amos Bronson Alcott

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10 years ago

At points of clarity, I realize that my life on earth is meaningless, and that I am merely a pawn in a bigger game. A game I cannot possible understand or have control of. Thankfully, before depression sets in, I drift back into my cloudy, bewildered daily routine.

Joel Patrick Warneke

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13 years ago

Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions.

Louis Pasteur

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13 years ago

Earlier people used to switch on TV's after getting bored with their routine work. Now they switch on to routine work after getting bored with TV.

B. J. Gupta

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14 years ago

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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14 years ago

So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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14 years ago

Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.

Sir Arthur Helps

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14 years ago

If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machine, does not choose to know how the machine got there or what makes his job possible, and proclaims that the management of the undertaking is parasitical and unneccessary.

Ayn Rand

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14 years ago

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.

Henri de Lubac

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14 years ago

Well, spring sprang. We've had our state of grace and our little gift of sanctioned madness, courtesy of Mother Nature. Thanks, Gaia. Much obliged. I guess it's time to get back to that daily routine of living we like to call normal.

David Assael

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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