Sentence examples for commonplace rather from inspiring English sources

User-focused digital delivery should become commonplace, rather than the domain of a few leading councils.

Perhaps it would help if sportswomen from all disciplines started talking more openly about the subject, making it commonplace rather than taboo.

Paul Broadhead of the Building Societies Association said: "As the average age of a first-time buyer continues to increase, borrowing into retirement is becoming increasingly commonplace, rather than a niche form of lending".

Significantly, they had used the adjective "everyday," meaning commonplace, rather than the adverb "every day," meaning daily.

In empirical economics, a discipline that uses large-scale statistical models broadly similar to those of epidemiologists, a famous study of replication of peer-reviewed research suggested that inadvertent errors may be "commonplace rather than rare occurrences" (Dewald et al. 1986).

His apprehension of everything seems to be shaped by an abhorrence of the commonplace or rather of a prosaic understanding of the commonplace.

Lettuce: ever present and yet under-valued, commonplace but rather unloved, all too often hiding its light under a bushel – or a burger.

When he does consider the SSRIs, he notes that they may indeed be overprescribed (as of 2011 46.7m prescriptions had been written in the UK for antidepressants), and in particular that they may be used to "treat" commonplace unhappiness rather than severe depression.

Employer injury and illness records are unlikely to include the detail contained in medical documents, and can be expected to describe the injuries using commonplace terms rather than medical terminology.

But the play was rather commonplace.

They got bored with her plight, which was rather commonplace that year.