Sentence examples for commonplace way from inspiring English sources
But Munro is now 81, and told the New Yorker last year she's "losing names or words in a commonplace way", and that "this time, I think it's for real".
In a little more than two decades, Mr. Culhane said, largely because of an economic boom that increased demand for urban housing by single adults who could pay, "homelessness went from a problem afflicting a few thousand skid row denizens to a commonplace way station for millions of America's poor".
I'm eighty-one, losing names or words in a commonplace way, so… Though each of the stories in "Dear Life" has an openness — even a forgiving quality — the pile-up of regret and disorientation in your characters' lives adds up to a slightly bitter conclusion.
Once again, after months of negative thought loops, enjoying myself was almost overwhelming in a commonplace way, like a mild religious experience.
And so, in the end, one suspects that he wants Minnie's good-natured, commonplace ways to stand as their own achievement, reminding us that life continues in the places left behind.
If that doesn't grab you, yet another "Too Hot" authority talks about the commonplace ways global warming will be felt: leaves will change color at odd times of the year, ski resorts won't get snow, spring geese will no longer come in the spring.
I think people have this very narrow box of what media about queer people has to be, and I would love for it to just become more commonplace the way it is in my life.
Commonplace means 'not unusual'.
Inter- or cross-disciplinary studies in volcanic areas are becoming more commonplace as ways of improving disaster risk reduction are sought (e.g. Gregg et al. [2004]; Ricci et al. [2013]; Donovan [2010]; Gaillard [2008]; Haynes et al. [2008]).
Setting targets has become commonplace as a way of measuring achievement and progress.
All three tales are terse and volatile; as Haggis pushes toward the climax, he makes the sequences shorter and more urgent, with overlapping thematic and visual motifs, until commonplace reality gives way altogether, and the stories melt into one another.
