Sentence examples for one commonplace from inspiring English sources

One commonplace episode; one more blow to civil-society activism by over-mighty owners of quasi-public space.

The one commonplace, garden-variety part of "Lisey's Story" is a subplot that has Lisey menaced by a sadistic creep.

A Mafia-themed trial like this one, commonplace in the Northeast, is a novelty in Atlanta, never an underworld hotbed.

But as he progresses from one commonplace subject to the next, Evans's show rings a little inauthentic.

A new study to be published in The Houston Law Review this fall has found two sorts of racial disparities in the administration of the death penalty there, one commonplace and one surprising.

(Every time the kid with the boom box walks through the Park from north to south, he is probing the places where one commonplace civilization ends and another begins. That's his aim).

Depending on whether one retains commonplace assumptions about what we can think or about what there is in the world, the Parmenidean thesis can lead either to a bloated ontology or a very restricted psychology.

One seemingly commonplace book on display, with no author or plot, may be the most moving item.

Since then, every successive year has pushed access to the net earlier and earlier, meaning that what was novel to the previous one becomes commonplace for successors.

The Carnegie Hall Studio Towers, as these quarters over the concert hall are known, contain many such oddities, but they also harbor one Manhattan commonplace: a band of artist-occupants whose tenancy is venerable, tenuous, and probably doomed.

Running an older server next to a newer one is commonplace, and even getting Macs to talk to PCs leaves young employees wondering what all the fuss was about if they've ever even heard anything about it in the first place.