QUOTIDIAN in sample sentences

Violence, that is, of the quotidian kind, the physical and psychological violence of poverty, the type of violence that had surrounded Deo all through his childhood and adolescence.

Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains

They are passionate spokespeople for their brand of life, giving Gogol and Moushumi a steady, unquestionable stream of advice about quotidian things.

Jhumpa Lahiri -- The Namesake

There is a man haunts the forest that abuses our young plants with carving "Rosalind" on their barks; hangs odes upon hawthorns, and elegies on brambles; all, forsooth, deifying the name of Rosalind: if I could meet that fancy-monger, I would give him some good counsel, for he seems to have the quotidian of love upon him.

William Shakespeare -- As You Like It

From His Observation Of The Sequell Of Things Thirdly, whereas there is no other Felicity of Beasts, but the enjoying of their quotidian Food, Ease, and Lusts; as having little, or no foresight of the time to come, for want of observation, and memory of the order, consequence, and dependance of the things they see; Man observeth how one Event hath been produced by another; and remembreth in them Antecedence and Consequence; And when he cannot assure himselfe of the true causes of…

Thomas Hobbes -- Leviathan

But there was more quotidian work to be done as well.

Erik Larson -- The Devil in the White City

The trouble was that there really was no end to the quotidian details of upper-class American life bafflingly new to Michael Oher.

Michael Lewis -- The Blind Side

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This theory is bound to provoke a variety of reactions, ranging from disbelief to revulsion, and a variety of objections, ranging from the quotidian to the moral.

Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner -- Freakonomics

Partly that is because we journalists tend to be good at covering events that happen on a particular day, but we slip at covering events that happen every day—such as the quotidian cruelties inflicted on women and girls.

Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky

By these means Elnathan had acquired a certain degree of knowledge in fevers and agues, and could talk with judgment concerning intermittents, remittents, tertians, quotidians, etc. In certain cutaneous disorders very prevalent in new settlements, he was considered to be infallible; and there was no woman on the Patent but would as soon think of becoming a mother without a husband as without the assistance of Dr. Todd.

James Fenimore Cooper -- The Pioneers

Quotidian things.

Don DeLillo -- Underworld

Quotidian.

Don DeLillo -- Underworld

…blessed Saviour "gave himself for us, that he might purifie us to himself, a peculiar (that is, an extraordinary) people:" for the word is in the Greek periousios, which is opposed commonly to the word epiousios: and as this signifieth Ordinary, Quotidian, or (as in the Lords Prayer) Of Daily Use; so the other signifieth that which is Overplus, and Stored Up, and Enjoyed In A Speciall Manner; which the Latines call Peculium; and this meaning of the place is confirmed by the reason God…

Thomas Hobbes -- Leviathan

, their yawning disdain of politics and the raw dirty world, their quotidian homage to the Kenyon Review, to the New Criticism and the ectoplasmic Mr. Eliot)—was that he was creating life full-blown from a test tube.

William Styron -- Sophie’s Choice

there’s nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute

he is so shak’d of a burning quotidian tertian

Shakespeare, William -- King Henry V

him some good counsel, for he seems to have the quotidian of love

Shakespeare, William -- As You Like It

I wanted to look up velleity and quotidian and memorize the fuckers for all time, spell them, learn them, pronounce them syllable by syllable—vocalize, phonate, utter the sounds, say the words for all they’re worth.

Don DeLillo -- Underworld