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businesslike example sentences
businesslike
1. The effect should have been sexy but her demeanor was businesslike
2. Hartman sat with his hands folded businesslike on the desk and his head
3. “I’ll go and see if Arioch is finished and tell him that you’re ready for him,” she said, suddenly very businesslike
4. It irked her how he could be aglow with warmth and good-humor one moment, and then summarily rendered cold and businesslike in another
5. He was to the point and very businesslike
6. ” Pamela thought how very businesslike his
7. He stationed them behind the reception counter, rifles leveled in a businesslike manner and pointing out at the front door
8. ” He was a little more businesslike than he would have wished
9. Vic was as businesslike as your city worker; money for services rendered and tricky operations dealt with
10. his voice, he tried to keep it businesslike
11. businesslike voice with no hint of the sudden discontent over the
12. As was the businesslike manner in which they disposed of the unlamented body of the woman whose head had been kicked in
13. ―Oh my God,‖ from Elise and a ―Shut your turd eatin‘ face,‖ from the businesslike Bloodtooth
14. I'll do it," was his quick and businesslike response
15. Leah leaned her elbows on the table then dropped into a businesslike
16. " Mitchell suddenly started appreciating his businesslike style
17. it sound too businesslike
18. He was referring to her ass but the use of the antiquated word and the businesslike inflection were enough to throw her off
19. She took it, appreciating the quick, businesslike shake before he released her
20. Once the kitchen was tidied up, Nick became businesslike, and suggested that they (indicating Henri, Falcon, Conrad, Joel and Kathy) adjourn in the living room, while Jack oversaw the security team shift changes and assigned new duties
21. " He was the most practical, businesslike, unaffected, energetic young man, thought Fritzing, that he had even seen
22. Equally businesslike she replied: “Yes
23. That was why I was so curt and businesslike
24. Hassan Riad was a junior officer dressed in a black police uniform and was very businesslike
25. “Whereas the old Rainbow of Life was basically a bunch of rabid fanatics, this new faction is much more businesslike in their approach
26. “Yes, there certainly is,” Katz said, now sounding businesslike and much less flirtatious
27. "You have to give information to the police," Porfiry replied, with a most businesslike air, "that having learnt of this incident, that is of the murder, you beg to inform the lawyer in charge of the case that such and such things belong to you, and that you desire to redeem them
28. She was struck too by the businesslike, dry and even contemptuous menacing tone of Pyotr Petrovitch
29. It's too long, but omitting the passages I've marked will make it just the right length," he said, in a businesslike tone
30. Polly was curt and businesslike
31. They touched her reverently, and in a quiet, businesslike fashion
32. He clips, brisk and businesslike, “She was reckless, convinced of her own invincibility
33. He came to speak to business men and he would speak to them in a businesslike way
34. Levin talked now not at all with that purely businesslike attitude to the subject with which he had been talking all the morning
35. find some way to make him be more businesslike in its operation than he had been with the store
36. He was so thin skinned he’d rather lose the money than be businesslike about collecting it
37. But when ladylike airs failed to lady, forced by brutal circumstance into a distasteful position, a helpless little lady who get results she was coldly businesslike and willingly undersold her competitors at a loss to herself if it would bring her a new customer
38. William didn’t look again but resumed his businesslike pace across Broadway
39. And then when he saw Ben hesitate, still sitting in back, his hands on his knees, Trey stuck his head back in the car and smiled that businesslike smile: “Don’t worry, dude, you’re with me
40. Thus these transactions are almost always effected on a businesslike footing
41. Investment is most intelligent when it is most businesslike
42. intelligent investors: as businesslike; characteristics of; and “controlling the controllable,”; ways of being
43. She couldn’t believe how impressive and businesslike he looked in his dark pin-striped suit
44. At that moment, with noiseless footsteps and with the businesslike, preoccupied, yet meekly Christian look which never left her face, Anna Mikhaylovna entered the hall
45. ‘I like your being businesslike about it
46. There is a fine businesslike quality about her
47. And when he killed for revenge, or in self-defense, he did that also without hysteria, for it was a very businesslike proceeding which admitted of no levity
48. ‘You have to give information to the police,’ Porfiry replied, with a most businesslike air, ‘that having learnt of this incident, that is of the murder, you beg to inform the lawyer in charge of the case that such and such things belong to you, and that you desire to redeem them … or
49. the businesslike, dry and even contemptuous menacing tone of Pyotr Petrovitch
50. The man was a retired captain, and the tone at his rooms was very tolerable, military, curt, and businesslike, and there was a fastidiously scrupulous keeping up of the form
