How to Use businesslike in a Sentence

businesslike

adjective

• His businesslike approach to the dispute was very helpful.
• The demeanor of the team is far more businesslike than in 2019.
  — Tim Bielik, cleveland, 10 Nov. 2020
• On the field, Aaron was businesslike and always did the right thing.
  — John Shea, SFChronicle.com, 22 Jan. 2021
• To be more businesslike on the field, Palmer would have to line up in a three-piece suit.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2022
• The guys who play at the Program have a businesslike approach to them.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Nov. 2019
• Be pleasant and businesslike, and focus on the tasks at hand.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 20 Oct. 2022
• While the wife toured the house with a businesslike clipboard in hand, the husband went back outside.
  — Dorothy Stephens, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• Name tags feel a bit businesslike — or like a high school reunion.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2022
• The calls are more businesslike and streamlined, 45 minutes rather than up to two hours.
  — Matt Viser, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Feb. 2021
• Gillian, who was the most businesslike and got on with things, had grandchildren, too.
  — Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2019
• This year’s signing day seemed businesslike, a bunch of teams just getting the job done.
  — Kevin Allen, USA TODAY, 1 July 2017
• Schweer, dressed for the office, had a prim, businesslike manner.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
• Before and after the show, the Pseudo scene is much more businesslike.
  — Jesse Freund, WIRED, 1 Sep. 1997
• They were shocked when the two of them, with the court case over, were able to move on, not as friends initially but in a businesslike way.
  — Sushma Subramanian, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2022
• Kunin’s departure kicked off the day, setting a businesslike tone for the Wild.
  — Sarah McLellan, Star Tribune, 8 Oct. 2020
• The fifth dancer, Diana Columbie Gamez (also in gray), paces the stage perimeter with a quick, businesslike stride.
  — Jeffrey Gantz, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2018
• Singh and Langer are friendly but not close, and both are known for being quiet and businesslike on the golf course.
  — Ap, USA TODAY, 27 May 2017
• Yet right now, the best way to describe this team is effective and businesslike.
  — Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 4 Oct. 2020
• With nowhere to go, maybe the trips become even more businesslike and players more focused.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2020
• Interior: Both are businesslike, but the Talon's wheel is more likely to hide the gauges.
  — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 24 Dec. 2022
• The 2016 team was a real businesslike bunch of veterans.
  — Bob Ford, Philly.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• QB Baker Mayfield has seemed far more businesslike than a year ago.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 12 Sep. 2020
• Lloyd Webber has a more businesslike attitude about the whole thing.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2023
• The interior is a businesslike place to be, and a comfortable one at that.
  — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 1 June 2022
• What a businesslike Viking roaming Iceland in, say, 874...
  — WSJ, 7 Feb. 2019
• The Suns had a very businesslike win in Game 5, and now will enter a raucous road environment to try and close things out.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 28 Apr. 2022
• Williams was intense and businesslike in a 6-1, 6-1 thrashing of Maria Sharapova in the first round Monday.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2019
• Edmundson goes to the Hurricanes as part of the cost of doing business, and his businesslike play will be missed.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2019
• Whereas the British like to go big on the pomp and pageantry, invoking ancient symbols of power, the Danes seem to take a more businesslike approach.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2024
• Thomas grieves but must interact with the businesslike functionaries of death.
  — Jeffrey Arlo Brown, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Oct 2024