Sentence examples for as an uncommon from inspiring English sources

Rendell is invariably described here as an uncommon man with a common touch.

What many think of as an uncommon occurrence is, in fact, the opposite.

On the day he landed, he worked half a day, striking Elisabetta Canali as "an uncommon celebrity".

It was possible, as were other diseases -- thyroid disease, diabetes, lupus -- common illnesses that can have these movements as an uncommon symptom.

We are mostly in Missouri, in the eighteen-eighties, as some of the wildness is draining from the West, and as Jesse James Brad Pittt) is already rising above the brute facts of his existence — he was a multiple murderer as well as an uncommon thief — and ascending to the status of myth.

But it was no more than two or three poems in before I started to sense the book's atmosphere, to see it as an uncommon chance to share Greek experience beyond the headlines – in a way that is fascinating, revelatory and only possible through poetry.

It is as yet an uncommon therapy, though it is becoming increasingly popular as an alternative treatment to traditional resection and radiation therapies.

Radiation-associated breast angiosarcoma (RT-AS) is an uncommon malignancy with an incidence of less than 1%% of all soft tissue sarcomas.

Pistorius is, as well, blessed with an uncommon temperament — a fierce, even frenzied need to take on the world at maximum speed and with minimum caution.

A common cause is uniformly present before the occurrence of any effect whatsoever and is necessary for effectuation as such; an uncommon cause is that which invariably and unconditionally precedes a particular effect.

Vitamin B12 deficiency has widely been known as 'pernicious anemia', arising from an uncommon lack of intrinsic factor due to severe gastric atrophy.