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Ordinary in sentence

1942 examples of Ordinary in a sentence

So they took their two anti-malarial, red-eyed mosquitos and put them in a box with 30 ordinary white-eyed ones, and let them breed.
Say you wanted to make a fruit fly that feeds on ordinary fruit instead of rotting fruit, with the aim of sabotaging American agriculture.
When France temporarily brought in the Swedish model two years ago, ordinary citizens took it as a cue to start carrying out vigilante attacks against people working on the street.
Now, in the years that followed, Ottawa kept pushing this message, but at the same time, ordinary Canadians soon started to see the economic, the material benefits of multiculturalism all around them.
A lot of people, and this includes everybody from philosophers and economists to ordinary people believe that human nature is fundamentally selfish, that we're only ever really motivated by our own welfare.
A hundred years ago, people would have thought it was ludicrous how normal and ordinary it is for people to donate their blood and bone marrow to complete strangers today.
Is it possible that a hundred years from now people will think that donating a kidney to a stranger is just as normal and ordinary as we think donating blood and bone marrow is today?
We never share the ordinary cases.
They're too ordinary, they're what normally happens.
Just like in society, you can't just listen to the one percent, the outliers, and ignore the 99 percent, the ordinary.
We are ordinary people attempting to do extraordinary things, and so we need to be supported in that way.
And the reason is when objects get really small, they're governed by a different set of physics that govern ordinary objects, like the ones we interact with.
About a year ago, our security researchers were tracking a somewhat ordinary but sophisticated banking Trojan called the Dyre Wolf.
It's an ordinary government building.
It doesn't empower the ordinary person anymore.
It doesn't care so much about the ordinary person anymore, and I think this diagnosis of the political disease is correct.
This change will only happen if we ordinary people tell our politicians that things have changed.
It was just an ordinary Saturday.
So, this arc of the cosmic transformation of God's favorite angel into the Devil, for me, sets the context for understanding human beings who are transformed from good, ordinary people into perpetrators of evil.
So social and psychological research reveals how ordinary, good people can be transformed without the drugs.
Heroes are ordinary people whose social actions are extraordinary.
The point is, are we ready to take the path to celebrating ordinary heroes, waiting for the right situation to come along to put heroic imagination into action?
And for that day, he leads all able-bodied men on a run, but it's not your ordinary run.
But patiently, very reasonably, Mister Rogers makes the case why good quality children's broadcasting, the kinds of television programs that talk about the drama that arises in the most ordinary of families, matters to all of us.
The journey begins and ends in a hero's ordinary world, but the quest passes through an unfamiliar, special world.
9:00: Return After all that adventure, the hero returns to his ordinary world.
Does she leave her ordinary world?
But these euphoric episodes exceed ordinary feelings of joy, causing troubling symptoms like racing thoughts, sleeplessness, rapid speech, impuslive actions, and risky behaviors.
The winners were a pair of amateur American chess players operating three ordinary PCs at the same time.
The most underreported fact of Harriet Tubman is that she lived to be 93 years old, and she didn't live just an ordinary life; uh-uh.
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