Sentence examples for uncommon like from inspiring English sources

In response, his hotel staffs have found themselves doing things that were once uncommon, like helping one long-term guest quit smoking or taking care of another guest who had fallen ill by delivering soup to his room and nursing him back to health.

This is a common pattern in contexts where blood transfusions are safe and HIV drug use is uncommon, like in Rio de Janeiro.

The 1D strands in 3 6 show a rather uncommon crown-like arrangement.

The difference in the number of the uncommon LuxR-like receptors (35 in P. luminescens, nine in Y. enterocolitica) gives rise to speculations that the insect host spectrum is constricted for Y. enterocolitica compared with P. luminescens.

Stern said that, if confirmed, the clouds might be like a fog made of uncommon gases, like ethane, acetylene or possibly methane, that condense at dawn and dusk of Pluto's long days – each one lasts 6.4 days on Earth.

From my studies of innovation history (which led to my best-seller, The Myths of Innovation), I know that the difference between relatively uncommon names like Tesla, Grey and Englebart, and household ones like Edison, Bell and Jobs, has more to do with their ability to persuade, convince and inspire than their ability to invent, create or innovate.

It's got location; it's got pleasant ambience; it's got a long, interesting and ambitious menu, listing among the familiar a few uncommon offerings like cuttlefish, wild boar, flattened chicken legs, buffalo, and pastas like perciatelli and pappardelle.

Such programs are not uncommon, and like any arranged marriage, they are gambles.

Seals can often be glimpsed in the waters here, and I've spotted uncommon seabirds like harlequin duck and razorbill.

They're puffy and yeast-raised, colorfully glazed with uncommon flavors like pineapple-brown butter, maple miso and blueberry-rosemary.

Try uncommon varieties like the rare, wild agave tobala as part of a three-tasting flight (100 pesos).