Sentence examples for could be ordinary from inspiring English sources

Cut them down by a third and they could be ordinary Midtown row houses, except for the single central doorway with elaborate torchiers.

In some ways, Hildale and Colorado City, in a region that is home to the largest concentration of polygamists in the country, could be ordinary Southwestern farming towns.

If you did not, or were in a hurry somewhere, as characters in Ulysses often are, as many people today still are, then it could be ordinary, like a street in any city.

This has been reflected in the way perpetrators of war crimes have been depicted in fiction: for the first time characters who perpetrated crimes could be ordinary people and even possess some redeeming features, albeit ordinary people, like Hanna, who committed appalling crimes.

It is likely that Phoenix's natural charisma would have shone through without industry clout - Sidney Lumet, who directed Running on Empty, decided that the actor "couldn't be ordinary if he tried".

Oh Mariah Carey, you couldn't be ordinary if you tried.

Yesterday ― the day before ― what had been just an ordinary day for me and for so many of us ― was a day that could never be ordinary for the mother, father, brother, sister and friends of this beloved young man ― this young man who didn't get the time to become a beloved husband or father.

To begin with, what may appear exotic to the average American could be very ordinary or even homey to another culture.

What could be more ordinary?

Under the Lemon Tree could be subtitled "ordinary bloke goes nearly mad in middle age".

It made me realise that cinema could be about ordinary people and their dilemmas.