Sentence examples for a bit commonplace from inspiring English sources

The piano ballad Sandcastles isn't a bad song as such, and it boasts a startlingly raw vocal that occasionally threatens to turn into a distraught howl, but it sounds a bit commonplace compared to what's going on around it, not least the flatly astonishing Freedom, a dense swirl of sound containing everything from old Alan Lomax field recordings to 60s psychedelia from Mexico.

Jennie McNulty of Marie Claire said that the song "has a wonderfully ambient feel, echoing an arty electro band", while Alexis Petridis of The Guardian wrote that Tangled Up "begins disappointingly" with "Call the Shots" as the opening track because the song's structure is "a bit commonplace" compared to Girls Aloud's previous singles such as "Biology" (2005).

The injury is very rare in the general population and even among most athletes, but it is a bit more commonplace among those whose job it is to shove very large people out of the way.

It's become a bit of a commonplace since, but I believe we were among the first to treat people not just as paying customers, but as part of the performance".

They teach us to upgrade, to refine, to jettison what is commonplace for something a bit more scarce.

But practicality is something of a commonplace; it feels a bit too aligned with the dreary expression "a woman's work".

Something about the Farmer ad that was rough-edged, yet riveting; a bit soiled, but compelling; common, but not at all commonplace.

Even casual games like The Sims have started to rev things up a bit, and in on-line games, tales of 'cybering' have become commonplace.

And if it has to be Brahms — it's great stuff, commonplace as it is — isn't Brahms the Romantic a bit redundant?

Mr. Letterman said he used to be a bit of an amateur photographer himself, just before digital camera technology became commonplace, and enjoyed taking pictures that he described as "mostly candid portraits of random people on vacation".

That neat portmanteau image of sexist and ageist abuse is so commonplace that it could be defended as an "Aussie" joke, a bit of punning fun.