ORDINARY in a Sentence
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196 example sentences for ORDINARY, such as:
1. Describe it in ordinary everyday language.
2. He's an ordinary bloke, despite being famous.
3. And so with most of the matters of ordinary life.
4. The article is a slander on ordinary working people.
5. When the fellow comes speak to him in an ordinary way.
2. He's an ordinary bloke, despite being famous.
3. And so with most of the matters of ordinary life.
4. The article is a slander on ordinary working people.
5. When the fellow comes speak to him in an ordinary way.
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Meanings and Examples of ORDINARY
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ordinary
a. not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree
n. a clergyman appointed to prepare condemned prisoners for death
Classic Sentence: (146 in 10 pages)
1 I am simply applying to ordinary life a few of those precepts of observation and deduction which I advocated in that article.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
2 When the fellow comes speak to him in an ordinary way.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
3 This was evidently no ordinary party of immigrants, but rather some nomad people who had been compelled from stress of circumstances to seek themselves a new country.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
4 The ordinary London growler is considerably less wide than a gentleman's brougham.
5 Boxer was an enormous beast, nearly eighteen hands high, and as strong as any two ordinary horses put together.
6 which was romantic and then, building word upon word she read: "The troopers told her the horse had a green tail; but she found it was just an ordinary horse."
7 The book was an ordinary version-book and contained little but a series of dates.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context Highlight In CHAPTER DR. LANYON'S NARRATIVE
Context Highlight In CHAPTER DR. LANYON'S NARRATIVE
8 Henry Jekyll stood at times aghast before the acts of Edward Hyde; but the situation was apart from ordinary laws, and insidiously relaxed the grasp of conscience.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
Context Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
9 He paused for the night at a small hostelry lying out of the ordinary route, where, however, he obtained from a wandering minstrel news of the event of the tourney.
10 Around, and at a distance from them, were seen many a bold yeoman, whose silvan dress and weatherbeaten countenances showed the ordinary nature of their occupation.
11 And so with most of the matters of ordinary life.
12 New London was never very rich, and in ordinary times just got along decently.
13 Rose had been in high spirits, too, and they had walked on, in merry conversation, until they had far exceeded their ordinary bounds.
14 When he drew nearer he perceived it to be a spring van, ordinary in shape, but singular in colour, this being a lurid red.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
15 They were merely indulging in the ordinary vivacious chat of relatives who have long been parted in person though not in soul.
Example Sentence: (50 in 4 pages)
1 It's not clear how the new law will affect the ordinary citizen.
2 I strongly suspect that most ordinary people would agree with me.
3 It may also appeal to the latent chauvinism of many ordinary people.
4 The article is a slander on ordinary working people.
5 Research on athletes and ordinary human subjects has yielded a mixed bag of results.
6 Motorways have largely superseded ordinary roads for long-distance travel.
7 Her paintings depict the lives of ordinary people in the last century.
8 She accused the government of trampling on the needs and rights of the ordinary citizen.
9 Children are very conservative where food is concerned, they are very loath to try anything out of the ordinary.
10 Describe it in ordinary everyday language.
11 He's an ordinary bloke, despite being famous.
12 The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
13 It's been believed for centuries that great writers, composers and scientists are essentially quite different from ordinary people.
14 Plain ordinary dream, we used the only adhere to the belief to support the dream.
15 A poet is one who can convert ordinary words into a meaningful and effective piece of writing.