Sentence examples for commonplace great from inspiring English sources

Remote controlled body worn vibrators have also become commonplace, great for couples looking for that extra oomph in the bedroom or while out to dinner.

It's a commonplace that great art comes from great suffering.

Even in a country where political theater of the absurd is commonplace, the great cap kerfuffle took many Venezuelans by surprise.

This has become a commonplace tribute to great departing cricketers.

In the early days of probability, it was commonplace for even great mathematicians to make mistakes.

Some have suggested that a professor's ability to teach would be compromised should it become commonplace for "The Great Gatsby" to bear a trigger warning alerting readers to misogyny and gore within its pages.

The most dramatic medical advance in the second half of the 20th century was, arguably, in the field of tissue and organ transplantation – now commonplace for a great many organs, but unthinkable in the 1950s.

Collette's particular brand of mortgage trouble has become increasingly commonplace as the Great Recession drags on.

And while the personal savings rate is no longer scraping along at the unsustainably low levels we saw in the middle of the current decade, at 3percentt it is still less than half of its long-term median and well below the more "normal" levels of 8-108-10percentat were commonplace since the Great Depression.

Hook recognized that an empirical analysis of experience and of the way scientific knowledge originated and functioned in the human environment could justify statements that represented the "great commonplaces" of experience and of the world.

From Hook's perspective, however, these "great commonplaces" did not constitute a set of metaphysical doctrines about the nature of reality which could be demonstrated philosophically or verified scientifically (Hook, The Quest for Being, 1961, Part 3, "The Quest for 'Being'").