Sentence examples for familiar commodity from inspiring English sources

Schubert being a familiar commodity, you could easily appreciate the depth of penetrating consideration Mr. Quasthoff brought to "Prometheus," an 1819 Goethe setting.

With an unsettled rotation, the Knicks on Tuesday added a familiar commodity, Jared Jeffries, who was traded to Houston last season.

Ms. Alsop, now the music director of the Baltimore Symphony, is a familiar commodity in Denver, having directed the Colorado Symphony from 1993 to 2004.

BERLIN — The two-door, 2-cylinder Trabant was — and almost certainly remains — the most familiar commodity to come out of the former East Germany.

In many large cities the soft pretzel is a familiar commodity sold hot, often with mustard, from the pushcarts of street vendors.

But it also sounds a bit like a familiar commodity, gold, that's also been on a roll, with its dollar price quintupling over the past decade.

When goods are purchased locally, they are more likely to be familiar commodities to survivors, and they are fresh and arrive quickly without extraneous transportation and storage costs.

I'm very familiar with commodity prices with high volatility.

That was pretty easy to pull off because both ICE and its traders were already very familiar with commodity futures.

In the present study, our respondents had been in the system for more than 10 years and were familiar with the commodity to be valued.

Where once crime syndicates focused on more familiar black market commodities – cocaine or heroin; arms; smuggled crude oil; trafficked women – law enforcement officials say that cartels are discovering opportunities in the more innocuous-sounding world of fisheries.