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Ordinary in sentence

1942 examples of Ordinary in a sentence

Along another wall, Lorenzetti illustrates the effects of good government on the real and everyday lives of ordinary people with a series of delicious little details.
I work with creators to tell the most uncanny, amazing, sensational stories about seemingly ordinary individuals who come to possess extraordinary identities.
These are just ordinary residences expressing the ordinary splendor of cities.
In nearby Oaxaca, even ordinary plaster buildings become canvasses for bright colors, political murals and sophisticated graphic arts.
And we've been saying: How close to human levels of performance and speed could we get in an ordinary task, like moving boxes around on a conveyor?
In their view, no other Muslim can ever be pure enough, so ordinary beliefs and practices that have existed for centuries are attacked as impure by teenagers from Birmingham or London who know nothing about the histories that they so joyously obliterate.
Today, we have technology that makes it cheap and easy for the government to collect information on ordinary everyday people.
And can you imagine the feeling of a small boy or a girl or an illiterate day laborer standing in front of that school building and knowing that you built this out of the ordinary bamboo and just the dirt underneath your feet, using nothing but your hands?
Despite the extraordinary things I was shooting and experiencing, they'd started to feel a little bit ordinary to me.
They see engagement, global engagement, as absolutely necessary to the future of the ordinary people.
This is no ordinary storm, but a violent and vengeful tempest, and it sets the stage for Shakespeare’s most enigmatic play.
In fact, there appears to be about ten times as much mass here in the form of this invisible or dark matter as there is in the ordinary matter, OK.
"Pete, I could use any ordinary open-source crayon, why do I have to buy theirs?"
What happens at ground level, far from the halls of power, happens to ordinary citizens one by one.
And then it became essentially an analogy for a mental state where you feel that you are not doing your ordinary everyday routines.
But the last thing that I should tell you is that Donna was not just an ordinary patient.
This still image of me experimenting in my school library may seem ordinary, but to me, it represents a sort of inspiration.
Then there's the point of embarkation, that is, the point of transition from ordinary life to being a pilgrim on a quest.
You've got to have a gradual return to the ordinary world, so you have time to assimilate what you've learned.
And the moon is only two seconds away, so if you take a picture of the moon using ordinary light, it's the moon two seconds ago, and who cares.
That is matter that doesn't interact with light the typical way that ordinary matter does, the way the light's shining on me or on the stage.
And the stuff that is in the yellow color, that is the ordinary kind of matter that's turned into stars and galaxies.
It's got dark matter, it's got ordinary matter, it's got photons and it's got neutrinos, which don't play much role in the later part of the universe.
And this is a simple one, because it doesn't have the ordinary matter and it just has the dark matter in it.
And you see how the dark matter lumps up, and the ordinary matter just trails along behind.
And these are just ordinary people like yourselves who are asked to guess how many people die from tornado, fireworks, asthma, drowning, etc. Compare these to the actual numbers.
Both the onset and demise of these atrocities came gradually, out of seemingly ordinary circumstances.
But a really nice way of re-framing the ordinary, and I think that's one of the things.
It involved me being searched for contrabands, changed from my ordinary clothes to the prison uniform, forced to squat on the ground, a posture that I soon came to learn would form the routine of the thousands of searches, number counts, that lay ahead of me.
And then, of course, it drifts back into ordinary life and the memory fades.
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