Sentence examples for as commonplace as the from inspiring English sources

The word has become as commonplace as the assumptions it reflects, and these assumptions are shared across the political spectrum.

But now references to the Kochs are becoming almost as commonplace as the Dixie Cups, Lycra, and other household products that their business produces.

It also makes one think that same-sex weddings may soon become nearly as commonplace as the traditional black tie, country club and limousine kind.

For the past two decades, a significant percentage of those pharmaceuticals have used by-products, as commonplace as the gelatine in pill coatings, derived from BSE-infected cows.

But the combination of Chinese and Latin food is as commonplace as the flickering neon signs proclaiming "comidas Chinas y Latinas" (Latin-American and Chinese dishes) at storefront Hispanic restaurants in New York.

So the new molecule, C60, was called the buckyball, or, when Dr Smalley was feeling impish, the buckminsterfullerene.Buckyballs, once found, turned up in substances as commonplace as the soot made by candles.

The whirlwind series of events has created a new lexicon that is as commonplace as those used in conversations on that most learned of Irish topics – the weather.

They sign up for it, but whining about this glut of fixtures handicapping English clubs in the Champions League are as commonplace as excusing the national team's failure to win any major tournament since the 1966 World Cup.

There are parts of Latin America where torture and corruption among police remain as commonplace as in the prisons.

Right now in Ciudad Juarez, the police cruisers are as commonplace as mosquitos in the summer.

Looking down the road for them, in say, 20 years, business meetings in SL or some equivalent alternative universe that doesn't involve air travel may be as commonplace as sitting on the tarmac at LaGuardia is today, with all the economic and environmental implications that go along with that.