How to Use businesslike in a Sentence

businesslike

adjective

• His businesslike approach to the dispute was very helpful.
• Nothing overtly frightening, but all of it was terrible—the tautness of the tape, the businesslike trot of the dogs, the way the crowns of the trees thrashed with the force of the helicopter blades.
  — Fiona McFarlane, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
• 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
• Thomas grieves but must interact with the businesslike functionaries of death.
  — Jeffrey Arlo Brown, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 29 Dec 2024