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Ordinary in sentence

1942 examples of Ordinary in a sentence

So these are little ordinary, everyday heroes, and they're incredibly admirable, but there's no way that they can sustain this kind of activity in the face of a system that either roots them out or grinds them down.
Though their loan recipients were high-risk by ordinary standards, the default rate was extremely low.
This is not beyond the grasp of ordinary people.
Ordinary people are capable of understanding this information, if we only go to the effort of presenting it to them in a form that they can engage with.
These guys came up with a kit version for 750 dollars, and that means that hobbyists and ordinary folks can get a hold of this and begin playing with 3D printers.
For the children we are raising, the injustice of today could become the ordinary of tomorrow.
In music and poetry, in the natural world of beauty and in the small ordinary things of life, there is a deep, indwelling presence that makes them extraordinary.
Perfectly ordinary scientific paper.
Darwin thought that atheism might be well and good for the intelligentsia, but that ordinary people were not, quote, "ripe for it."
At 31, he was not able to relate the kind of [unclear] research, which he was doing with the lives of the ordinary people.
Ordinary people know about this because if you go to a village in India, they might not have gone to engineering college, but no one makes a roof placed like this.
And so even though the universe will last forever, and ordinary matter and radiation will dilute away, there will always be some radiation, some thermal fluctuations, even in empty space.
Fourteen years ago, I first encountered this ordinary material, fishnet, used the same way for centuries.
Or perhaps an ordinary person like you or me?
And what we have here is no ordinary desk lamp.
It can enable ordinary people to hold powerful organizations to account.
Gowers described the process as being to ordinary research "as driving is to pushing a car."
They'd run ethanol or ordinary gasoline.
Most of them are ordinary digital camera photos, but this one, for example, is a scan from the Library of Congress, and it's in the 300 megapixel range.
That is a side effect of their ordinary operation.
So there is this likable hero in an ordinary world, and they get this call to adventure.
They're like, "I don't know if I want to jump into this," and then a mentor comes along and helps them move from their ordinary world into a special world.
Many of them would be young, some would be old, a few would be rich, but most of them would be ordinary people like you and me.
Who's been hiding this sky from me?" Of course, the answer is obvious if you think about it or if you look at the picture on the left, where you're seeing the same neighborhood taken during a blackout versus on an ordinary night.
Citizen science is when large research projects put their data online, teach ordinary people, like you, to go and interact with that data and actually contribute to the research by making interesting or necessary characterizations about it.
It just means ordinary or common.
And in our ordinary lives we exist as individuals.
The staircase takes us from the experience of life as profane or ordinary upwards to the experience of life as sacred, or deeply interconnected.
Angry, frustrated, really upset about the state of her society and the state of her children, this young girl started a movement, a movement of ordinary women banding together to build peace.
From Wall Street to Mohammed Mahmoud Street, it has never been more important to understand the aspirations of ordinary people.
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