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adjective

grooved

established as if settled into a groove or rut

In a sentence

Six example sentences with grooved, each labelled with its topic.

  • Her grooved evening habits leave no opening for anything new, and even a phone call feels like an intrusion.

    Psychology

  • Twenty years of grooved procedure meant the department answered a new question with the form it already had.

    Business

  • His grooved routine of the same three lifts every Monday explains why his numbers stopped moving four years ago.

    Fitness

  • His grooved free throw motion never varies, three dribbles and a breath, which is why the crowd noise cannot touch it.

    Basketball

  • Years of grooved warmups mean the singer starts every day with the same nine exercises in the same order.

    Music

  • Court mornings run on a grooved schedule, and a new clerk learns quickly that the judge sits at nine sharp.

    Law

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