Sentence examples for an ordinary type of from inspiring English sources

At a news conference held outside a neighbor's house in one of the upscale subdivisions that he developed, Mr. Spann described his son as "an ordinary type of a boy" and "a loyal patriotic American".

Meg's brother, Charles Wallace, as written by L'Engle, is a sort of holy fool, a conspicuous exception among children, a prophet or seer endowed with great powers, while Meg is an ordinary type of math-and-science prodigy, distracted and adept, for whom he's a source of delight, complicity, and trouble.

It was done on a mediocre sheet of parchment, "an ordinary type of colonial manufacture that could be easily found on sale in Philadelphia," as Pauline Maier, a professor of history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, noted in her 1997 book, "American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence".

Our sun is an ordinary type of star called a yellow dwarf.

The glass is of an ordinary type and about 2mm thick.

Having a discussion with a group of classmates in a more formal setting is different from the ordinary type of conversations you probably have with your friends on a daily basis.

Thus they are enabled to enjoy the antics of Charlie Chaplin and other heroes and heroines of the 'movies,' like their more fortunate comrades, who can move about and attend the ordinary type of cinema entertainment.

Not your ordinary type of laughing, but hysterical shrieks of joy and amusement.

A non-ordinary type of solid fuel gasification reactor, which was under development for the few past decades and it is briefly described as indirect heat rotary kiln gasifier, seems to be capable of sufficiently satisfying the incorporated gasification needs in the most challenging contemporary power technologies using solid fuels, like IGCC and CLC combustion.

Instead, beginning with the desirous, incomplete human body (symbolically evoked by "1⁄2"), he asks us to focus on five ordinary types of objects--stones, incense, drums, crosses, and bread--with which we connect in our pursuit of religious meaning and fulfillment.

So, according to this view, neither incoming, contracting electromagnetic waves nor the decrease of entropy would count as examples of backward causation as long as such processes involve ordinary types of matter, i.e., matter that possesses positive mass and/or energy pointing, in relation to our normal time sense, towards the future.