Examples:

• Okay, fine, we're in a rut.
• This is exactly why you're in a rut, Otis.
• Priests and rulers became fixed in a rut of ceremonialism.
• Look, Emily, we are not in a rut, okay?
• Being a territory has Puerto Rico's economy in a rut.
• You're in a rut with the tuna, by the way.
• I never said you were in a rut.
• I'm just saying, maybe we're both in a rut right now.
• Now she thinks we're in a rut.
• Paula made me see that I have been in a rut.