Sentence examples for commonplace was from inspiring English sources

Pain so commonplace was somehow more bearable.

"In her hands the commonplace was transformed into something memorable," he says.

How commonplace was such behaviour in the industry at the time?

IVF, an assistive technology now widespread and commonplace, was similarly controversial when it was introduced in the 1970s.

Still, Mr. Long was a pioneer in establishing employee stock option plans, and he sometimes said that making them commonplace was one of his most important accomplishments.

For what the unsigned writer captured here was one of those perception-shaking moments when (to borrow from Gertrude Stein) a style that would eventually be perceived as commonplace was still fresh and raw enough to seem ugly, to shock.

That commonplace is wrong.

After all, commonplace is not cliché.

The commonplace is made mythic, Cocteau style.

These up-close confrontations, which are commonplace, are inherently jittery.

What is not commonplace are sinkhole tragedies.