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:

  • The WP cites an anonymous law enforcement official in making the claim that possible links between Ressam and anti-American militant Osama bin Laden are being pursued, and quotes an anonymous Clinton administration official, saying "this was not a run-of-the-mill operation ...

  • Are not the “run-of-the-mill users” really just “the careless users, who [as they would probably say] could care less about using English correctly and cogently”?

  • 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.”

  • Tuition at run-of-the-mill private schools in Houston runs more like $5,500 for the school year.

  • 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.


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