Sentence examples for commonplace as a from inspiring English sources

Setting targets has become commonplace as a way of measuring achievement and progress.

Some critics have wondered whether cheating would become more commonplace as a result.

"Oh, no, not that," she said, as though a Pantheon were as commonplace as a lawnmower shed.

Swift defined the commonplace as "a record of what occurs remarkable in every day's reading or conversation.

For Mr. Twist has created nothing so commonplace as a story ballet with Disneyesque "Fantasia -style narratives.

The relentlessly upbeat winery newsletter is now as commonplace as a Gideon Bible in a Holiday Inn.

Tattoos on your arms are a commonplace, as well as on the chest or back.

Soup kitchens are commonplace, as are empty buildings and shops.

Just thinking about it now makes me want to burst out laughing at its sheer audacity, its eccentricity, its unashamed aspiration to poetry and its nimble evasion of anything so commonplace as an explanation.

As ridiculous as these conspiracies may sound, it might be even more difficult to believe that the Super Bowl, the most thoroughly planned entertainment event of the year, could have been undone by something as commonplace as an accidental power failure.

Reference to the unpopularity of a position has also become commonplace as an argument for its lack of validity (Hilbeck et al. 2015; Payne 2016).