Sentence examples for commonplace item from inspiring English sources

With their Beats By Dr. Dre line, Monster has done what they do best: take a commonplace item, and turn it into a status symbol.

There are seldom any witnesses, and fires can be started with commonplace items.

While consumer advocates arch their eyebrows at unorthodox items like mail sterilizers and bubble tents, their real ire is aimed at more pedestrian and commonplace items.

Talking about places that are ramping up the quality of commonplace items, the nearby Jaunty Goat is Chester's go-to "third wave" coffee shop.

He is also always on the lookout for the commonplace items — tennis rackets, computer keys, garden hoses — that he uses to build his installations.

But there is a broader market for such relatively commonplace items as antique tile floors, wood paneling, mantelpieces and chimneys, and sometimes even for staircases.

Commonplace items found in the local environment can be used to emulate more sophisticated instruments, and community-specific engineering programs can be developed to provide locally produced appropriate technology that promotes independence from Western sources.

Many of the stories in this collection celebrate the hidden qualities of commonplace items like keys, a coffee pot and a straw hat, and the importance of seemingly unimportant things.

He said that the revolution in miniaturization in commonplace items like telephones will eventually also mean that biological, chemical and even nuclear weapons will be able to be put in packages small enough to transport easily.

Private acts of rebellion but also Proustian madeleines, lovingly put together from commonplace items in the East, they make much of what passed for abstract art on the other side of the Wall look labored and pretentious.

The "intentional languages" of Hindu and Buddhist Tantric texts include vocabularies in the names of commonplace items that are intentionally used in secret ways to speak about visionary and mystical experiences.