Sentence examples for ordinary race from inspiring English sources

You don't ride it like an ordinary race.

In an ordinary race, errors this tiny wouldn't be a problem.

For many Democrats, the governor's race here is no ordinary race.

Its cavernous grandstand capable of withstanding the weight of 80,000 people has in recent years echoed hollow beneath the feet of mere hundreds on any ordinary race day.

"You're dead right, in an ordinary race there is no way $4 million is going to do this," David A. Norcross, one of the state's two Republican National Committee members and a Franks ally, said in an interview.

Bayern, who made all the running to win, caused interference to two opponents leaving the stalls, so much so that most of the Americans in the press box seemed to believe that in an ordinary race on another day Bayern would have been long odds-on to lose the race.

Vettel isn't your ordinary racing driver.

"I spoke to my boss John Oxx and he told me not to be going across to Britain for ordinary races.

As they crossed the finish line, the racers appeared undeterred by the extra weight of their snowshoes, looking as if they were running in an ordinary foot race.

Since then he has run in an ordinary 10,000m race, finishing second in April at Stanford University, with his time of 28min 32:48sec just over a minute behind Farah's Olympic victory.

What he said of Mark Twain could just as well have been said about him: "He somehow managed – despite a steady underlying seriousness which few writers have matched – to step round the pit of self-importance and to keep his membership of the ordinary human race in the front of his mind and his writing".