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:

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

  • 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.”

  • 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.

  • 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 ...

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


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