Sentence examples for ordinary old from inspiring English sources

In England, perhaps he feared he would be squelched, made ordinary, old.

We should have known that Muhammad Ali would not settle for any ordinary old resurrection.

Time magazine ran a big story on how this "ordinary old man" was spending "the twilight of his political life where he wants to be out to lunch".

When Dorothy's dog Toto pulls back the curtain hiding the great wizard by mistake, Oz is revealed to be an ordinary old man from Kansas.

Arlyn and John ditched ordinary old Bottom as a surname and picked Phoenix – with its connotations of a magical bird rising up out of the ashes.

Is it simply about the hassle of big city life, or the generation of middle-class Americans betrayed by the Reagan and Bush eras, or an ordinary old American psychopath whose nerve breaks?

The first advantage is that there are lots of stations unavailable on ordinary old-fashioned radios.

Not everyone dislikes these, just as ordinary, old-fashioned windmills have gone from being doubtless noisy blots on the mediaeval landscape to treasured examples of England's heritage, or novel and usually pricey homes.

Mrs. Van Buren, who had formerly earned a precarious living by selling trays she had painted and out-of-the-ordinary old buttons she had tracked down in second-hand-clothing stores, had at last been compelled to go on old-age assistance.

(Tommasini)   ★ Riverside Symphony (Thursday) For its season-finale concert, the Riverside Symphony offers a typically imaginative program with a deceptively ordinary title: "Old World/New World".

Here, prices are negotiable, and you can find heaps of dusty antiques, pashminas and just about anything out of the ordinary — from old scimitars to pearls harvested locally.