Sentence examples for commonplace items from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

More-commonplace items are layered in among the taxidermied rattlesnakes and other unusual pieces — things like ancestral portraits or the vintage ladies' hats that have a nostalgic, and comforting, feel.

Deaths, maiming, and third-degree burns are commonplace news items, and almost every family shares the memory of a shattered window pane or a home fire caused by a wayward fire rocket.

This summer, the commonplace grocery items New Yorkers pick up from their corner bodega get heightened thanks to a textile show by UK artist Lucy Sparrow, who's installing a fully-stocked felt convenience store on Little West 12th Street in New York City.

Mass manufactured, commonplace, damaged items will be cheaper.