ordinary

Definition:
1. A judge of a probate court.
2. The expected or commonplace condition or situation.
3. A clergyman appointed to prepare condemned prisoners for death.
4. An early bicycle with a very large front wheel and small back wheel.

Use 'ordinary' in a sentence:

• 1. Food for the ordinary Soviet troops and NCOs was very poor.
• 2. It was just an ordinary house—nothing pretentious.
• 3. The bonds are convertible into ordinary shares.
• 4. Such luxuries are unavailable to ordinary people.
• 5. Cheaper housing would vastly improve the living standards of ordinary people.
• 6. It was just an ordinary weekend for us.
• 7. This is by no means out of the ordinary.
• 8. I'm just a very ordinary, boring normal guy.
• 9. It may also appeal to the latent chauvinism of many ordinary people.
• 10. It was just an ordinary day.
• 11. The government is trampling on the views of ordinary people.
• 12. I'm looking for something a little more out of the ordinary.
• 13. These are just two ordinary houses.
• 14. Her mother explains ordinary things like housework.
• 15. The ordinary people could not understand it.
• 16. It was just an ordinary house ─ nothing pretentious.
• 17. They seem destitute of ordinary human feelings.
• 18. The most important issue for most ordinary people was nowhere on the proposed agenda.
• 19. It is his popularity with ordinary people that sets him apart.
• 20. I strongly suspect that most ordinary people would agree with me.
• 21. Your life since then must have seemed very ordinary.
• 22. It was just an ordinary voice, but he sang in tune.
• 23. I class myself as an ordinary working person.
• 24. The company priced its offering of 2.7 million ordinary shares at 20 pence a share.
• 25. That is quite an ordinary event.
• 26. He has managed to crystallize the feelings of millions of ordinary Russians.
• 27. The film testifies to the courage of ordinary people during the war.
• 28. It has 25 calories less than ordinary ice cream.
• 29. He transforms the most ordinary subject into the sublime.
• 30. Tickets seem unobtainable to the ordinary mortal.
• 31. An ordinary life policy may have a cash surrender value of $50,000.
• 32. Politicians seem to be generally held in contempt by ordinary people.
• 33. It's a very ordinary movie ─ I don't know what all the fuss is about.
• 34. The meal was very ordinary.
• 35. The single most important factor that separates ordinary photographs from good photographs is the lighting.
• 36. In the ordinary way, she's not a nervous person.
• 37. Some application forms can be incomprehensible to ordinary people.
• 38. Ordinary people are at the mercy of faceless bureaucrats.
• 39. The needs and opinions of ordinary working people were ignored.
• 40. The boy's knowledge was out of the ordinary.
• 41. Research on athletes and ordinary human subjects has yielded a mixed bag of results.
• 42. This was no ordinary meeting.
• 43. Life continues to be a terrible grind for the ordinary person.
• 44. The life of ordinary citizens began to change.
• 45. A real pizza oven gives better results than an ordinary home oven.
• 46. It's possible to weld stainless steel to ordinary steel.
• 47. Their lifestyles were typical of ordinary people.
• 48. The policy is to integrate children with special needs into ordinary schools.
• 49. They wore ordinary ties instead of the more formal high collar and cravat.