How To Use Workmanlike In A Sentence
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Britten betrays his workmanlike approach to composing here: there was no question of waiting for inspiration to descend.
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Brent Johnson's playoff poise is similar to his grandfather's, and his workmanlike approach to stopping pucks stems from the barrage of shots his dad fired at him as a teen.
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Really it's a workmanlike conference rather than a dramatic one.
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This progressive two-year-old gained a workmanlike success in a maiden race over this course and distance at the beginning of the month and left the impression that he could step up again.
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This was more like it - a workmanlike performance embued with no shortage of skill and plenty of heart.
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the book is a workmanlike job with chronology and bibliography and index
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The Australian side turned in a very workmanlike performance.
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But the supervising centurions kept on barking, barking, barking to strike hard and strike accurately, and as the process proceeded down the line of decuries it became more workmanlike, quicker.
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Yoder's style, illustrated in this Anniston Star piece, appears to be workmanlike but not unusual.
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Saracens, with a week off from Merit Table games, arranged a pool fixture with Yarnbury firsts and produced a workmanlike performance in difficult conditions to run out comfortable winners.
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The defendants allegedly collected down payments from consumers at the time the contracts were signed and then either failed to begin the work or performed work in a shoddy and unworkmanlike manner.
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Although he was happy with the team's workmanlike performance, he reckoned there were enough chances to win this contest.
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an unworkmanlike result
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The Contractor shall execute and complete the Works, so far as it is legally and physically possible to do so, in a good and workmanlike manner and using materials of good quality so far as they may be reasonably procurable.
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Many of her first attempts were little more than workmanlike folk songs.
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It gets the info across but also sets a workmanlike and inelegant tone.
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Victory there was workmanlike rather than brilliant.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was competent and workmanlike but its shopping list of initiatives recalled his duller budgets.
Brown fails to inspire
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PUT in a workmanlike performance without really hitting the heights for England.
The Sun
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The floors were all single and laid in so unworkmanlike manner that I could often see the ground beneath, when the carpets were not on the floor; and they are always taken up in the summer, to make the apartments cooler.
The Romance of the Civil War
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His workmanlike approach doesn't lend itself to much praise, but what he's doing this season is remarkable.
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The script was workmanlike at best.
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It was a workmanlike performance from the local team.
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An oval or round patch is unworkmanlike and does not wear well.
Textiles and Clothing
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Wolves have only had one opportunity so it was a good, workmanlike performance away from home.
Times, Sunday Times
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If some of this makes "Eclipse" sound talkier than it is (i.e. quite talky and sometimes pleasantly so), the production, under David Slade's workmanlike direction, takes several time-outs or time-ins, depending on your bloodlust level for bluntly efficient if familiar battles.
'Eclipse' Makes 'Twilight' a Bit Brighter
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Displaying the same alacrity from the gates as he had when winning a Doncaster minor event, the Mujadil colt was guided by the stands' rails to a workmanlike success.
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This method is extremely costly and unworkmanlike.
Elements of Plumbing
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macadamized" with a gray cement which gives very much the effect of asphaltum, separate one demesne from another; and each meadow, lawn, field, and barn-yard has its own proper fence or wall, constructed in the most workmanlike manner.
The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal
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And the reason he bothered to do it was because otherwise you just don't get your purfling [the three - piece wood sandwich that runs along the edge of a violin] to meet up, and you have a stupid-looking clunky thing, so it was actually a very practical, workmanlike adaptation to some design thing that he wanted to do.
Isolating the Violin's Song
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In barely raceable ground, the winner was workmanlike rather than spectacular.
Times, Sunday Times
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They went about their tasks in a very professional and workmanlike manner.
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Like the trustees, stewards and owners of Britain's other stately homes, the Carnarvons had got used to the idea of soft-pedalling their class and privilege in favour of a workmanlike attitude to custodianship that blurred the distinctions.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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The court concludes the defendant breached the contract with the plaintiff by using inappropriate materials and installing the posts and rails in an unworkmanlike manner.
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The other pair were intent on turning every course they worked on into a masterpiece, as a monument to their genius but the Scot was far more workmanlike in the way he did his business.
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But workmanlike is sometimes not enough to bowl out good batsmen on good pitches.
Times, Sunday Times
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A detailed, workmanlike production, just not one that burrows into the darkest recesses of the heart.
Times, Sunday Times
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Confronted therefore with the opportunity, or the need, for a change of habit, in the course of a migration for example, they must either refuse it, like a shy horse, or (if they accept it) enter on their new career imperfectly trained, and extemporizing adjustments here and there in very unworkmanlike fashion.
The Unity of Civilization
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That is to say, if any spaces exist between adjacent luminaires, light will shine through the apertures or spaces resulting in an unsightly and unworkmanlike appearance of the finished assembly.
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The play is workmanlike rather than inspired, and has real difficulty with endings.
The Times Literary Supplement
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In other designs the means of access to the rear ends of the tubes are of a makeshift and unworkmanlike character.
Steam, Its Generation and Use
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That liability is not qualified by any term that work be done with reasonable skill and care or in a competent or workmanlike manner.
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Though they maintain a workmanlike attention to detail, entries in the seventh edition feel homogenized, impeccably accurate yet flat and lifeless.
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Really it's a workmanlike conference rather than a dramatic one.
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Dukinfield are workmanlike rather than spectacular and from the kick-off they displayed their intention of frustrating the home side.
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His workmanlike versatility and steady output have earned him a reputation as an artistic chameleon.
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I had hoped for a little more from the world's greatest tenor, whose performance was workmanlike but hardly inspired.
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A workmanlike performance from the Spaniard in the centre of midfield.
Times, Sunday Times
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Plaintiffs enumerated a number of problems, defects and unworkmanlike conditions existing in the modular home constructed by the Defendant under its contract with plaintiffs.
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However, he seemed happy to look over my plans and that, coupled with workmanlike builder's hands and nice Italian shoes, made my heart skip.
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They hardly set the world on fire with their workmanlike 1-0 win over Croatia.
The Sun
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Dressed simply in brown unitards, they brought a workmanlike tenacity to their precarious endeavors.
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The first he managed in an efficient, workmanlike manner.
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The master's voice The writing throughout was workmanlike rather than inspired.
Times, Sunday Times
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A solid, workmanlike display, they won't be far away at season's end.
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It was a workmanlike effort for a man who had just had one week's holiday.
Times, Sunday Times
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In this case, the court held that the unworkmanlike application of waterproof membranes constituted an ‘event’ on each occasion that it occurred.
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They are a compact, workmanlike side and have two attackers blessed with skill and tremendous pace.
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Really it's a workmanlike conference rather than a dramatic one.
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No man ever came back to him and said, ‘Sir, you broke my neck in an unworkmanlike manner.’
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As to the kitchen and dining-room, I leave to your vivid imagination to picture their primitiveness, merely observing that nothing was ever more awkward and unworkmanlike than the whole tenement.
The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
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However unworkmanlike the deed, it had been mercifully done.
Jude the Obscure
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Completed, the bandage looked not too unworkmanlike, and was cool and comforting to the hot throb of the wound.
Success A Novel
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The band's workmanlike performance frequently looked like bored autopilot, while each number sounded more generic than the last.
Times, Sunday Times
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In his absence, his new club, under their new coach, made a workmanlike start to the Premiership campaign, but won few plaudits for style.
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A thick edge on a joint gives an unworkmanlike appearance to the work.
Elements of Plumbing
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The prose is workmanlike but plain; the author makes no attempt to spice it up with colorful quotations, amusing anecdotes, or passages of descriptive writing.
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an unworkmanlike tool
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As he tells it, Kwan approached his criminal life with workmanlike discipline.
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That error, one could infer, demonstrates unworkmanlike performance and led to excessive excavation.
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This biography is short, sound and workmanlike rather than a sparkling text.
Times, Sunday Times
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A detailed, workmanlike production, just not one that burrows into the darkest recesses of the heart.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yeah, they'll win a lot of games in an efficient, workmanlike fashion.
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The workmanlike Campbell deserved a goal for his efforts, and thought he had it four minutes before half time only to see his simple finish ruled out by a linesmen's flag.
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This is a practice which is abhorrent to clock professionals and considered unworkmanlike.
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It was a workmanlike performance.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dressed simply in brown unitards, they brought a workmanlike tenacity to their precarious endeavors.
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Lawson's workmanlike approach to the Hull game was typical of the whole team, who are making far fewer sloppy mistakes than earlier in the campaign.
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Included in the deal was the four-wheel-drive Musso, a workmanlike offroader which had never really achieved anything.
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It was a workmanlike second half from Carlow, but the margin reflected the gap between the divisions.
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I had hoped for a little more from the world's greatest tenor(Sentence dictionary), whose performance was workmanlike but hardly inspired.
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Bill Clinton was deemed the best performer by 31 percent-evidence that he had succeeded in staging the kind of unruffled, workmanlike performance he needed.
FACE TO FACE TO FACE
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For two years the Mongols moved from fortress to fortress with workmanlike efficiency.
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The plaintiff claims that R & M performed its services in an unworkmanlike manner and that the company failed to complete several of the contractual requirements.
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Moreover, the court says that the law is well settled ‘that the natural results of negligent and unworkmanlike construction of a building do not constitute an ‘occurrence.’
