Example sentences for: ordinary

How can you use “ordinary” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • As a result, arguments by indigent clients that a welfare statute is unlawful or unconstitutional cannot be expressed in this Government-funded program for petitioning the courts, even though the program was created for litigation involving welfare benefits, and even though the ordinary course of litigation involves the expression of theories and postulates on both, or multiple, sides of an issue.

  • The concepts he invokes--"quiet faith," "mature patriotism," "ordinary duties," "morality writ small," "soft multiculturalism"--proclaim a preference (both his and his subjects') for the middle way.

  • Becker succeeds in establishing the famine "as one of the worst atrocities of all time" (Richard Bernstein, the New York Times ). He does this despite the Chinese government's continued effort to cover up the incident, and by way of "interviews with survivors [that] provide us with a chilling view of the famine as it was experienced by ordinary villagers" (Paul Pickowicz, the Wall Street Journal ).

  • Publicity and the vigilance of ordinary Americans also make a difference.

  • (Hunting licenses are so restricted that it is scarcely worth the trouble for the ordinary tourist. )


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