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Example sentences for "workday"

Lexicographically close words:
workable; workaday; workbasket; workbench; workbox; worke; worked; workemanship; workemen; worker
  1. Scenes no longer of humble, workday rural life surround her, and a fairer and more dazzling image succeeds to the companion of the Sabbath eves.

  2. I have vowed to live henceforth in the common workday world.

  3. But in the very much praised labor laws of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic an eight-hour workday is provided for.

  4. I do not believe Lilian would sympathize with you, and I am sure you could not sympathize with her throughout the long dull course of this workday life.

  5. Maybe Katie'd get me over of a common workday though, some time, to help her a bit or so.

  6. The old man dwelleth in those bygone times, And in our workday world would realize The dreams of ancient bards, who picture life 'Mid bowers celestial, throned on golden clouds.

  7. Throughout this biological speculation there is present, obscurely in the background, the tacit recognition of a material causation, such as conditions the vulgar operations of workday life from hour to hour.

  8. The myths on the one hand, and the workday knowledge of uses, materials, appliances, and expedients on the other hand, may be nearly independent of one another.

  9. Every one is working hard, as in Japan, for the Chinese workday seems endless.

  10. These people do not work with the fierce energy of the American mechanic, but their workday is from twelve to fourteen hours and, considering these long hours, they show great industry and conscientiousness.

  11. A dreamer from Parnassus hurled, into a sordid workday world, where gold the god of all things seems, and men who dream must live on dreams.

  12. But they seemed so remote from him; they put the dreamland of the writer farther and farther from his workday real life.

  13. But it is necessary to bear in mind that there are two industrial questions which have absolutely refused to bend to the power of government: the question of the length of the workday and the question of wages.

  14. By shortening the workday in keeping with the increased productiveness of machinery.

  15. It was time to descend from his speculative heights and face the problems of his workday world.

  16. And then, deep down, he had a masculine distaste for sharing his workday world with a woman.

  17. What he did realize was that the leveling process which goes hand in hand with the mingling of sexes in a workday world was setting in.

  18. Loosely speaking, the arrangement should leave nothing appreciable over, after the requirements of genteel waste and of the workday standard of consumption have been met.

  19. All this has evidently been coming more and more urgently into the workday deliberations of the American administration.

  20. These decencies are no less requisite than the physical necessaries, in point of workday urgency, and their amount is a matter of use and wont.

  21. The Council of Workmen's Deputies, therefore, deems it necessary to stop temporarily the immediate and general establishment of an eight-hour workday by force.

  22. It will be comparatively easy to introduce the eight hour workday and progressive taxation, though even here the center of gravity is not the issuance of a 'decree,' but the organization of its practical application.

  23. The eight hour workday would not be put into operation; the revolts of the workingmen would be put down by force of arms.

  24. It is a well established fact that an eight hour workday does not contradict the capitalist order; it is, therefore, well within the limits of the Social-Democratic minimum program.

  25. An eight hour workday law would necessarily meet with stubborn and organized opposition on the part of the capitalists--let us say in the form of a lock-out and closing down of factories and plants.

  26. Under the political domination of the proletariat, the introduction of an eight hour workday must have totally different consequences.

  27. The improvement of the industrial conditions of the workers: (a) By shortening the workday in keeping with the increased productiveness of machinery.

  28. This, arranged to suit the exigencies of agricultural production, might mean a twelve-hour workday for four or six summer months, as the case may be.

  29. All persons employed on such works shall be employed directly by the government under an eight-hour workday and at the prevailing union wages.


  30. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "workday" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    businesslike; chaste; classical; commercial; common; commonplace; everyday; garden; homely; homespun; household; lowly; materialistic; mundane; nondescript; ordinary; plain; practical; prosaic; prosy; pure; realistic; simple; utilitarian; workaday; working