Example sentences for: run-of-the-mill

How can you use “run-of-the-mill” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Again and again we read about “the careful user, who wishes to use English correctly and congently” in contrast to “the run-of-the-mill user, who frequently sacrifices care and correctness in the interests of speed.”

  • He had campaigned as a run-of-the-mill anti-tax, pro-family, rock-solid conservative.

  • Northwards, the Leeward Island moving up through Antigua to Jamaica are today locked into American television, while southwards the Mona, Trinidad, campus of the University of the West Indies duplicates any run-of-the-mill American municipal college, at least in its language aspects, being blessedly innocent of any courses in Anglo-Saxon or Middle English.

  • It is probably a characteristic of humanity's eternal upward struggle that good enough is never good enough, and neutral terms like ordinary, mediocre, average, so-so, run-of-the-mill , and indifferent tend to take on negative connotations.

  • The earliest uses of the adjective referred to fabrics, to distinguish ordinary or run-of-the-mill cloth from finer weaves.


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