Sentence examples for once ordinary from inspiring English sources

What was happening was at once ordinary and outlandish, inevitable and contingent, as in a dream.

Once ordinary people leave, the culture that goes with them will leave," he told me a couple of weeks ago.

Once ordinary Russians could get a seat at the ballet, they found they liked it very much.

His life was once ordinary; he had worked as a municipal bus driver, behind the wheel of the number 143.

They were suburban artists, like Dreyfuss, using the stuff of everyday life to make images at once ordinary and bizarre.

Folk status may crystallize around objects that were once ordinary products of cottage industries but have since become obsolete — exotically old-fashioned.

If you ever get the feeling that every once-ordinary object in your life is now beeping, flashing, counting or otherwise hinting of intelligence, blame Warren East.

Then change comes — sometimes gradually and naturally, sometimes violently or through arbitrary accident — and the once-ordinary life is lost to us, becomes the irrecoverable past, missed or regretted or left behind with relief, but, mostly, forgotten.

Just as her farming transformed the once-ordinary yard, her advocacy turned Los Angeles into fertile territory for urban farming.

This once-ordinary envelope now exuded significance, so I set it on the counter with a sense of expectation -- as if waiting for it to come to life.

She transformed herself only once: from ordinary to star.