Example sentences for: everyday

How can you use “everyday” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In everyday life, metaphors take many different forms, including similes (a nose as red as a cherry), proverbs (don't count your chickens before they're hatched), transfer phrases (make heavy weather of...) [,] wellerisms (everyone to his taste, as they said when the old woman kissed the cow), metonymy (the knife for surgery, the crown for royalty), synecdoches (sixty head of cattle, a cut-throat), and swearing (bloody bugger!)...

  • So too, words like shirt, bus, paper, fan, road , and light have become common in everyday vernacular speech in India.

  • And some of these are our everyday companions, whose credentials we do not doubt and whose very ordinariness leads us to take them for granted.

  • You can also find Huichol ceremonial and everyday life artifacts for sale at galleries that specialize in Huichol art.

  • for the everyday" (Daniel Mendelson, the New York Review of Books ). The problem is that the mixing of this traditional story with King's trademark bone-chilling horror results in a novel that straddles the two genres somewhat awkwardly.


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