Sentence examples for commonplace ones from inspiring English sources

This means that those cases that fit the stereotype - such as stranger rapes - take precedence over the more commonplace ones.

These stories blend darkly phantasmagoric elements with humorously commonplace ones, and Eminem makes a perfectly good avatar for that kind of thinking.

It has become a commonplace (one that I've also relied on) to call the movie a screed against bourgeois life.

He chose commonplace, one-syllable words that had what he described as "a certain comedic value".

"A forbidden one, a tragic one," but a commonplace one "at the end of the day"?

It is a dramatic prediction — and an oddly commonplace one these days.

And, despite A-list celebrity ads becoming more commonplace, one of the first of the Oscar-winning converts is out.

At Fernald, the attendants reigned supreme, and physical abuse was commonplace: one lawyer described school records discovered years later as a "ledger of broken arms".

For better or for worse, in our brand-obsessed world, this is often how social change finally crosses from a radical idea to a commonplace one.

That life's a game that can be played well, or badly, is a very old idea and, at least in the last few centuries in the history of Western civilization, a commonplace one.

In some contexts, this will be the deliberate protection of the environment from harm: in a world where exploitative and aggressive behaviour is commonplace, one of the "providential" tasks of human beings must be to limit damage and to secure space for the natural order to exist unharmed.