Sentence examples for were not usual from inspiring English sources

"The way they were abusing me, I thought they were not usual criminals," she recalls.

But these were not usual times, and when they learned that Bush would be visiting downtown Manhattan on Friday, they figured that he would prefer to go there with headlines trumpeting his generosity, not his stinginess.

HWL at Duke was like an incubator for faculty to do things that were not usual faculty fare.

Plato was living in a volcanically and tectonically active part of the world where massive earthquakes and tsunamis were not usual.

Also, missing elements from a scientific point of view that were not usual in the field of practice were added by using theoretical approaches for the requirements of interactive activities (Greene and Burleson 2003; Hacker 2009; Nerdinger 2011).

But these were not usual circumstances.

This is not usual.

That is not usual.

That's not usual.

"It is not usual," Bouvier said.

"This is not usual," she said.