Sentence examples for commonplace were from inspiring English sources

Ms. Orlandersmith's descriptions of childhood friendships and frictions that develop into romance would seem commonplace, were it not for her ear for a cadenced language steeped in both sweet melody and earthy physicality.

Images that are now commonplace were once visible only to those who were determined to seek them out, knew where to go and were not ashamed to reveal their appetite for them.

Adrian Frazier in his revealing biography deploys throughout his text brief verbal snapshots of his subject supplied by Moore's contemporaries, as if to confirm what the novelist himself told his mother in a sadly brave letter: "I was born, I live and I shall die a peculiar man -- I could not be be commonplace were I to try".

For instance, the levels of 1-hydroxypyrene in postshift urine specimens from workers in a bus garage where diesel exhaust exposures were commonplace were about 2-fold higher than those from a control group (Karahalil et al., 1998; Kuusimaki et al., 2004).

That commonplace is wrong.

After all, commonplace is not cliché.

Pain so commonplace was somehow more bearable.

The commonplace is made mythic, Cocteau style.

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

What is not commonplace are sinkhole tragedies.

The commonplace view is conservative.