Sentence examples for ordinary occurrences from inspiring English sources

— and the war crimes were hardly ordinary occurrences.

Police brutality and racial profiling were ordinary occurrences in Detroit's African American neighbourhoods.

Jeff is convinced that ordinary occurrences in his own life have special significance.

"Simic is a master at interrogating ordinary occurrences with piercing yet slightly tongue-in-cheek observations," Albert Mobilio wrote here in 1999.

Genzlinger, who found three of the books under review lacking, mourned "the lost art of shutting up" and longed for a time when you had to earn the right to draft a memoir, by... having an extremely unusual experience or being such a brilliant writer that you could turn relatively ordinary occurrences into a snapshot of a broader historical moment.

Genzlinger, who found three of the books under review lacking, mourned "the lost art of shutting up" and longed for a time when you had to earn the right to draft a memoir, by … having an extremely unusual experience or being such a brilliant writer that you could turn relatively ordinary occurrences into a snapshot of a broader historical moment.

Relevantly, Ogata (2008) argues that the background rate appears better long-term forecasting for large earthquakes (M ≥ 6.7,15 years period) than the ordinary average occurrence intensity in space, by the retrospective prediction performance.

"Our humour is pretty good," Andrée wrote, "although joking and smiling are not of ordinary occurrence".

He "takes the mystery out of dying, makes it almost an ordinary occurrence," Foote wrote to Percy.

"This is an ordinary occurrence, which happens every now and then for both sides," said Muhammad Ali Hosseini, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, as quoted by the state-run news agency IRNA.

Either way, several residents in the Beaumont and Port Arthur area said wild alligators were not an ordinary occurrence around those parts.