Sentence examples for a commonplace version from inspiring English sources

"In fact, they were acting out a commonplace version of 'Dangerous Liaisons.' " Nathalie Sorokine, another student of Beauvoir's, was also the child of Russian émigrés.

This is the most commonplace version of the argument.

If you don't tend to wear sunglasses regularly, they can be slightly intrusive or bothersome, but I can only imagine that as Spectacles become more commonplace, versions with clear lenses will be released for indoor use as well.

In many ways, "Madness, Rack, and Honey" reads like a steroid-boosted version of a commonplace book, those thinking persons' scrapbooks that became popular in early modern Europe and contained quotations from the classics, scraps of conversation, poem fragments, recipes, proverbs and lists of every sort.

Therese Humbert had simply embroidered her own version of a commonplace French myth, that of the American uncle, "l'oncle d'Amerique" -- the fellow who had gone off to the land where the streets are paved with gold, capable of saving the folks back home from ruin if not elevating them to riches that matched his.

The conservative version of the crusade is a commonplace: the poor should try harder next time.

But if the album has a recurring motif, it's the galloping rhythm borrowed from Walker's version of Jacques Brel's Mathilde: hardly a commonplace sound in latterday alt-rock.

It takes a commonplace of political life – that political leaders must pretend to be cartoon versions of themselves – and explores what twisted desires might lie behind the façade.

Hoover has chosen to create multiple versions of a Shakespearian sonnet, and one that is preoccupied with a commonplace and familiar content.

That is a commonplace.

It was a commonplace.