usual
[ˈjuːʒuəl]
Definition:
1. That happens or is done most of the time or in most cases.
2. Commonly encountered.
'usual' example sentence:
- Campese was his usual mixture of flamboyance and flair.
- She answered all my questions with her usual honesty.
- He's not his usual happy self this morning.
- She made all the usual excuses.
- He gave me five dollars, same as usual.
- As usual, she completely monopolized the conversation.
- They had delayed having children, for the usual reason, to establish their careers.
- I'll skip the usual preliminaries and come straight to the point.
- The day followed the usual pattern.
- She sat in her usual seat at the back.
- You're looking more like your usual self.
- "As usual," muttered his martyred wife.
- As usual, Harriet is trying to stir up trouble.
- The government was limping along in its usual way.
- You're bang on time, as usual.
- As usual, he confined his comments to generalities.
- Jose, as usual, had climbed a tree to keep watch.
- Despite the threat of war, people went about their business as usual.
- They have the usual quota of human weaknesses, no doubt.
- Alice was in a tearing hurry as usual.
- She served up the usual excuse.
- It is usual to start a speech by thanking everybody for coming.
- The piece is written in his usual expansive style.
- Several more people than usual came to the meeting.
- You're not your usual cheerful self today.
- As usual at that hour, the place was deserted.
- Steve, as usual, was the last to arrive.
- All the usual mob were there.
- She is following her usual policy of ignoring all offers of help.
- The vintage was later than usual.
- He came home later than usual.
- He didn't sound like his usual happy self.
- Everyone blamed me as per usual.
- Her latest book isn't up to her usual standard.
- She fell back on her usual excuse of having no time.
- We had all the usual problems attendant upon starting a new business.
- The festival has the usual mixture of movies ─ good, bad and indifferent.
- There was complete anarchy in the classroom when their usual teacher was away.
- As usual, Tom was in full flow.
- It did not conform to the usual stereotype of an industrial city.
- He soon recovered his usual self-possession.
- As usual, I got landed with all the boring jobs.
- Shares were trading at under half their usual value.
- Bob introduced her to some of the usual crowd.
- She had to spend nearly four months away from him that summer, instead of the usual two.
- He is in a much better mood than usual.
- He was in a less jocular mood than usual.
- She would, he assumed, be home at the usual time.