Sentence examples for in a commonplace from inspiring English sources

They should jot down these sentences in their journals or in a commonplace book.

I seem always to begin with the apprehension of details, as if, among objects in a commonplace view, one or two had begun to glow or resonate with imaginative potential.

In a commonplace book, he jotted down the advice Shackleton had given after the sinking of the Endurance: "A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground".

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".

A New York City public school teacher charged with endangering the welfare of a child for punching a student in the arm 13 times for his birthday said yesterday that she was participating along with other students in a commonplace tradition and felt she did the boy no harm.

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.

Left largely untouched is the question that perhaps matters most: given man's undoubted and very likely ineradicable capacity for cruelty, what is it that makes torture a relative rarity in some societies and a commonplace in others?

The idea that health depends on a balance of opposed factors in the body is a commonplace in Greek medical writers.

Anthony reportedly grabbed a.22 rifle and jumped out of the SUV without putting it in park (this is not suburbia--rifles in SUVs are a commonplace around here).

Despite the current mess in Iraq, this is still a commonplace in Washington.

The copy which I filed was completely re-written in the Guardian office, a commonplace event in a newsroom.