A set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program

Usage examples of routine.

As I went through my antemeridian routine, I discovered that I harbored the same mixed mood that had pervaded my weekend, and I can only describe it as being precariously happy.

But he attended assiduously in his place and learned thoroughly the routine and business of the House.

If we erase that routine, your probes will start up our nanites but stop short of assimilating them.

It rarely happened that a human was attacked by a kren, but the humans feared it so greatly that they drilled their medical teams in antivenom routine.

But those acts raised the specter of the antiviral routines, and Gina was growing more frightened by the day at how far out of hand her behavior had gotten.

Have developed a routine in which he is a Tex-Mex astronaut coming home after eleven months on the Moon, she pregnant.

The subject he had expected to be raised came up after a routine report on various financial interests-outside the hotel business--on which Lemnitzer astutely rode herd.

An automaton is someone who acts in a routine or monotonous manner and lacks active intellect.

She kept up the routine when she got to the autostrada as well, although the suddenly uncooperative nature of her bladder and the fact that for the first time in her life she felt carsick meant that she had to stop frequently.

From the time she had been a toddler, she had crawled into this bed on Sunday mornings, dragging her stuffed animals and blankies with her, her menagerie as much a part of the weekend routine as the funny papers and the croissants and jam and tea that Delphine always brought upstairs on the breakfast tray.

Oval Office routine: holding the document steady on the blotter for Daniel Galbraith to sign with his left hand, while the useless arm hung down at his side.

There was something soft about Breger, something tired, as if he had grown comfortable in a routine that was being shattered by his younger, more enthusiastic partner.

This is when Stone starts threatening and Breger holds her back and the whole madcap mad-cop routine plays itself out.

Those first weeks of basic training quickly took on the quality of a challengea challenge to our sharp-edged smart-ass individuality which we were supposed to submerge in humility, prayer, the tedium of routine, the constant busyness, the sounds and smells of a religious dorm.

A bony, craggy Scotsman, with a square fighting head and a bulldog jaw, he had conquered the exclusiveness and routine of the British service by the same dogged qualities which made him formidable to Dervish and to Boer.