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:

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

  • 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.”

  • During the Nuremberg trials, for instance, prosecutors misclassified the special police units largely responsible for the slaughter on the Eastern Front as run-of-the-mill policemen, rather than as the mass murderers they were.

  • 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”?

  • "Any run-of-the-mill episode of Law & Order would be more subtle, more sophisticated, and more compelling," says Entertainment Weekly 's Lisa Schwarzbaum.


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