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:

  • 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 more expensive than the run-of-the-mill Century line of car seats (a Britax runs above $200), but it is made of material so hard it would crack your knee if you walked into it, and its belting system is far more encompassing and elaborate than the average car seat's.

  • 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”?

  • 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.

  • 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.”


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