ordinary

Example Sentences

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In the days after the shooting, thousands of ordinary Australians lined up - many for hours on end - to donate blood desperately needed to treat those injured.

From BBC

This property reveals how electrons join together to form the superconducting state and serves as a clear signature that distinguishes a superconductor from an ordinary metal.

From Science Daily

Luis Robles, 33 years old, a political prisoner in Cuba until October and now in exile in Spain, said, “The situation for ordinary Cubans is very hard.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Eichmann distanced himself not only from ordinary decency but empirical reality, “that is, against the claim on our thinking attention that all events and facts make by virtue of their existence.”

From Salon

"It was just an ordinary day," he tells me, as shoppers were enjoying the rare sunshine in the capital.

From BBC