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.
