Example sentences for: ordinary

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

  • The manipulative sexpot Angela, who taunts her friend Jane with the idea of seducing her dad, acts chiefly out of a terror of appearing ordinary.

  • In most circumstances, employee stock option profits are taxed as ordinary income.

  • Where necessary, brief but not cryptic explanations are provided of any information that might seem to be out of the ordinary.

  • A classic, of course, is coarse . This word seems to have popped up in the early 15th century, as an adjectival form of course `ordinary order' or `normal manner.

  • There are about 35,000 of them in the ordinary stock of the English language, a figure that does not include the many eponymous words in the specialized languages of science, engineering, and especially medicine.


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