Sentence examples for uncommon things from inspiring English sources

When they did speak, they found they had many uncommon things in common.

Ms. Dreger encourages new birders to develop their skills by "watching common birds doing uncommon things".

He is the author of "Speck: A Curious Collection of Uncommon Things" (Princeton Architectural Press, 2001).

"When you don't see very uncommon things, you don't think about very uncommon things," said Nicole Lurie, a former federal health official who worked on bioterrorism issues in the Clinton administration.

For his thesis project at the School of Visual Arts, which he later turned into a book, "Speck: A Curious Collection of Uncommon Things," published by Princeton Architectural Press, he invited artists and other obsessives to explore everyday ephemera — things like dust, the inside of a pocketbook, the bottoms of sneakers — in words and pictures.

"Speck: A Curious Collection of Uncommon Things," a new book by Peter Gordon Buchanan-Smincludesludesuchchomelyly things as a stack of laundry lint from one woman's dryer, a lineup of misspellings of one artist's name and a collection of worn-down lipsticks.

It's not an uncommon thing.

"It's not an uncommon thing," he said.

"It's not an uncommon thing to do".

The most moving – and uncommon – thing about Berenice is what doesn't happen: no one dies and life goes on.

Tenet has done an uncommon thing in Washington — uniting columnists on opposite sides of the Iraq war in their contempt for him.