Sentence examples for be a common fixture from inspiring English sources

Such wheeling and dealing used to be a common fixture before the days of prime-time television, but has not occurred since Reagan nearly snatched the nomination from Ford in 1976.

The rationale is that if a gene in e.g. soil has a substantially higher level of orthology to proteins in sea, compared to the rest of the proteins in soil, then it is less likely to be a common fixture of soil.

Cell phones are a common fixture on tables at restaurants, whether the meal is for business or not.

A recent mayor — a 26-year-old house painter and puppeteer — performed gay marriages against state law in 2004; the Main Street grocer is called Karma Road; sidewalk guitarists and hand-drummers are a common fixture.

The sight of terrified men suddenly gathering up their street displays of Eiffel Tower trinkets and sprinting off while tourists look on confused is a common fixture around Paris's most popular attractions.

Alarm clocks are a common fixture in most bedrooms, but do they actually help us get better rest?

Love it or hate it, the Elf on the Shelf is a common fixture in American homes around the holidays.

Forced arbitration clauses and other legal tools for silencing sexual harassment accusers have been a common fixture in cases involving prominent figures in media, entertainment, technology and politics.

I'm not sure what we would do in Washington D.C. if a cow chose to sit on I-495 and the cars just drove around it as if it were a common fixture.

But if the impromptu, Willy Wonka-styled ice cream social he threw in Auckland earlier in the week is any indication, the party could be a more wholesome affair compared with the well-documented soirees of Dotcom's past, where nightclubs, hot tubs and scantily clad women were a common fixture.

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