How to Use quotidian in a Sentence

quotidian

adjective
  • Over the years, few bands have been able to do quotidian grandeur as well as Arcade Fire.
    — Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2025
  • So far, so fairy tale, but the story drifts back into the quotidian details of village life.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Was Blass’s mental block a sign of what lurked on the other side of these quotidian failures?
    — Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
  • There is evil in the theological sense; there is evil in the quotidian sense.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Giving breadth and depth to quotidian moments is a talent.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Can decades of quotidian contentment really hold a candle to the mad blush of first love?
    — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Instead of a haunting silence, there is the quotidian hum of traffic.
    — Nabih Bulos, latimes.com, 5 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • For something as simple, quotidian, as throwing a ball, we were forced to spend countless hours doing it.
    — Andrew Reiner, Baltimore Sun, 16 June 2024
  • Geishas and robots are equally quotidian sights.
    — Jessica Kozuka, Travel + Leisure, 2 May 2026
  • 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
  • Duolingo also teaches quotidian math skills like how to calculate tips and hourly wages.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 10 May 2024
  • Are their conversations as quotidian as our own girls-only chats?
    — Kate Lavelle, Glamour, 18 May 2026
  • Even daily quotidian choices like what to wear and what to eat can flex decision-making muscles.
    — Theo Wolf, Contributor, CNBC, 27 Mar. 2025
  • The quotidian business of being a mother had never been covered in such detail.
    — Air Mail, 10 May 2025
  • Beyond the quotidian oddities, there are strange things afoot at the factory.
    — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 2 Dec. 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
  • Signing off on an order to strip a creep of his honorary title is another quotidian part of this ruling thing, surely.
    — Kenzie Bryant, Vanities, 26 Oct. 2017
  • For more quotidian looks, the Queen often utilized the visual power of color.
    — Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The questions raised by Nick’s decision, after all, are quotidian ones.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 1 May 2025
  • But choosing a quick trip means weaving through groups of hikers and missing the quotidian beauty of life beyond the piazzas.
    — Chloe Arrojado, AFAR Media, 17 June 2025
  • Get our daily newsletter Up close, the result will be a steady stream of quotidian benefits.
    — The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Some of the shots show quotidian activities, suggesting that life goes on, oblivious to the past.
    — Nina Siegal, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Someone else would have written a story about an old woman, still alive after three earnest requests not to be, crying at the quotidian touch of her child’s child.
    — Audrey Wollen, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • If anything, the events that lead her down a life of anti-feminist advocacy are almost quotidian.
    — Literary Hub, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Her women talk—and talk and talk, and then talk some more—and in each exchange the quotidian details of life spark ideas and insight into the human condition.
    — Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • As our narrator is beginning to discover, parenthood brings all the risks and hazards of quotidian life to the fore.
    — Deborah Treisman, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2025

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