Sentence examples for a most ordinary from inspiring English sources

The chartreuse of pheasant, which can he displayed stunningly, was presented on a most ordinary dish.

This peculiar arrangement of forms turns out to be a most ordinary American event: a frog-jumping contest in Calaveras County, Calif.

He cut the figure of a most ordinary man: the threadbare gray suit of the nondescript style favored by midranking civil servants; the thick, owlish eyeglasses that emphasized his training as an accountant; the slight build that suggested he ate just enough.

Amr Khalid is an accountant by profession and a most ordinary-looking man, with a receding hairline, a carefully tended mustache and a weakness for sharp-patterned suits.

Over the next three weeks, as the bombing reached a crescendo, most ordinary Iraqis continued to quietly watch and wait.

"It's my hope that in telling my story and bringing light to the stories that people shared with me, I can bring a reminder that we are talking about real people, real trauma, real vulnerability; that this is an issue most ordinary Americans know little about but it still affects them".

In so doing, they distinguished sex (being female or male) from gender (being a woman or a man), although most ordinary language users appear to treat the two interchangeably.

Surnames were rare in the highlands until the 17th and 18th centuries and in the Middle Ages all members of a clan did not share a name and most ordinary members were usually not related to its head.

They inhabit a world that most ordinary humans, or 'muggles', cannot see and know nothing of.

"But has Mr. Obama gained three points, at a time when most ordinary Americans are watching the Olympics?

Retta Riordan stands more of a chance than most ordinary voters of fathoming out what is at stake.