Sentence examples for ordinary sight from inspiring English sources

IT IS an utterly ordinary sight: a boy and two girls, aged maybe 11 or 12, laughing together as they scuttle down the street.

Such an ordinary sight that you hardly take it in, so that a few weeks pass before you notice it's shut, and a further few weeks before somebody tells you it's a restaurant now.

As is also true in Europe and the United States, many residents of the city are employed in informal jobs hidden beyond ordinary sight, including those working as live-in maids and unlicensed child-care providers, as well as those engaged in more nefarious pursuits, such as drug dealing, prostitution, and black marketeering.

Also known as the inner eye or chakra, it's a mystical and esoteric concept referring to a speculative invisible eye which provides perception beyond ordinary sight.

This may be an ordinary sight on a street or community playground in Pakistan, but there is more to this gruelling cricket match being played at the headquarters of the Balochistan Boys Scouts Associationn (BBSA) in Quetta.

says Hazoor Bakhsh, a highly motivated voluntary teacher at the Non-Formal Basic Education Centre NFBECC) in Basti Jindani, a village i Building Bridges with a Cricket Bat Quetta - Balochistan - April 2014: This may be an ordinary sight on a street or community playground in Pakistan, but there is more to this gruelling cricket match being played at the headquarters of the BBSA, Quetta.

Because their makers were seeing the world anew, even ordinary sights are captivating.

Flanner's correspondents must have looked forward to her witty responses to the ordinary sights and sounds of the city.

They went wandering around the streets at night, exclaiming over all the ordinary sights: telephone boxes and cars and garden shrubs.

In its stringent suppression of auteurism -- all signatories to the vow of chastity "swear to refrain from creating a 'work' " -- dogmatism, at least as applied by Mr. Kragh-Jacobsen, derives impressive aesthetic authority from ordinary sights and sounds.

Singing their borough eclectic, some of the "Brooklyn!" artists, like the photographer Richard Rothman, have taken its ordinary sights -- backyard lots, the front of a house with a droopy picket fence -- as their raw material.