Sentence examples for were a common spectacle from inspiring English sources
Their report said public killings were a "common spectacle" in areas run by the jihadist group and that local people were forced to watch.
Public executions are "a common spectacle" on Fridays in El Naim Square or at the Al Sa'a roundabout, a United Nations human-rights commission reported last month.
In a report, investigators say public executions are a "common spectacle" in areas run by IS, one of the groups fighting against Syria's government.
Public executions are a "common spectacle" on Fridays, with the Islamic State encouraging residents to attend.
That is precisely what makes the police violence that has become such a common spectacle so troubling: protest is an essential American democratic tradition, and you don't have to support the protesters (or oppose the dismantling of their camps) to condemn its forcible stifling.
It's a common complaint that thrillers in general, and anything inflected by horror in particular, exploit the spectacle of the female victim.
He later commented, "…Misery, resignation, and death on one side, pretension and highfalutin speech on the other, was the most common spectacle" [ 5]. (Merle d'Aubigné was fluent in English).
Roman sports were a spectacle organized by the government.
His friendships, too, were an unedifying spectacle.
It's a depressing spectacle.
