Sentence examples for ordinary turn from inspiring English sources

There's an element of satire here, but the idea that children have executive authority is now so entrenched that many readers, old and young, are likely to consider a moonlit stuffed-animal exchange an ordinary turn of events.

The placement of the straps is slightly different, and the PS1 uses a distinctive metal fold-down closure whereas the Target model has an ordinary turn-key closure.

She's terrified of losing her identity, becoming ordinary, turning into her mother.

Semiotics, for all its needless complications, still taught us to look for new possibilities in the ordinary, turning signs into new wonders.

Minerals like magnesium, calcium and even arsenic in trace amounts are expected in water, and nothing out of the ordinary turned up in our chemical analysis.

But when Cathy Seibel, an assistant United States attorney, wrapped up her rebuttal summation by describing Mr. Nixon and Mr. Pirro as "smart people" who "keep very damaging information around," the ordinary turned into the extraordinary.

The junction has since been modified to a signalized intersection with ordinary turning lanes.

Acts of terror typically rip apart ordinary days, turn routine trips to work or school into pits of pain and heartache.

Other, more potentially ordinary moments turn sinister.

Seen from the right perspective, the ordinary could turn strange, dreamlike and hauntingly ambiguous.

More remarkably, you find yourself wishing it would, because these absolutely ordinary people turn out to be infinitely interesting.