Sentence examples for commonplace compared to from inspiring English sources
The phrase "commonplace compared to" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when you want to compare something ordinary to something else which is even more ordinary. For example, “Waiting in line at the DMV was commonplace compared to the chaos that ensued after the power outage.”
The piano ballad Sandcastles isn't a bad song as such, and it boasts a startlingly raw vocal that occasionally threatens to turn into a distraught howl, but it sounds a bit commonplace compared to what's going on around it, not least the flatly astonishing Freedom, a dense swirl of sound containing everything from old Alan Lomax field recordings to 60s psychedelia from Mexico.
Jennie McNulty of Marie Claire said that the song "has a wonderfully ambient feel, echoing an arty electro band", while Alexis Petridis of The Guardian wrote that Tangled Up "begins disappointingly" with "Call the Shots" as the opening track because the song's structure is "a bit commonplace" compared to Girls Aloud's previous singles such as "Biology" (2005).
Nonetheless my quotation goes the other way around compared to most of the previous commonplace quotations.
Today, thanks to our colder winters, most insects are still not available year-round, compared to the warmer climates where bug-eating is much more commonplace.
This can save you a tremendous amount of money compared to buying jewelry in Europe or the USA, where it is commonplace to charge as much or more for workmanship than for the gold itself.
The couple's work has sometimes been compared to a fantasy, a term Julian dislikes because it is rather too commonplace an idea.
Compared to less frequent, emotionally-charged events, bedside teachers initiated team-based reflection on commonplace "teachable moments" related to patient characteristics or emotions, trainee actions and emotions, and attending physician role modeling.
The U.S. will remain behind compared to similar products and services offered in Europe and Japan, where short messaging service (SMS) has been commonplace for some years and Web-enabled phones and multimedia messaging services are now being introduced.
However, the game at Norwich was fairly commonplace compared with what happened in north London.
But they are commonplace compared with the 38 that will roll out of the "atelier" of Pagani, an Italian manufacturer, this year.
Nonetheless, ACDF has become increasingly more commonplace compared with PCF, in part because of a pervasive belief that PCF has a higher incidence of required reoperations.
