usual

[ˈjuːʒuəl]

Definition:
1. That happens or is done most of the time or in most cases.
2. Commonly encountered.

Use 'usual' in a sentence:

• 1. Campese was his usual mixture of flamboyance and flair.
• 2. She answered all my questions with her usual honesty.
• 3. He's not his usual happy self this morning.
• 4. She made all the usual excuses.
• 5. He gave me five dollars, same as usual.
• 6. As usual, she completely monopolized the conversation.
• 7. They had delayed having children, for the usual reason, to establish their careers.
• 8. I'll skip the usual preliminaries and come straight to the point.
• 9. The day followed the usual pattern.
• 10. She sat in her usual seat at the back.
• 11. You're looking more like your usual self.
• 12. "As usual," muttered his martyred wife.
• 13. As usual, Harriet is trying to stir up trouble.
• 14. The government was limping along in its usual way.
• 15. You're bang on time, as usual.
• 16. As usual, he confined his comments to generalities.
• 17. Jose, as usual, had climbed a tree to keep watch.
• 18. Despite the threat of war, people went about their business as usual.
• 19. They have the usual quota of human weaknesses, no doubt.
• 20. Alice was in a tearing hurry as usual.
• 21. She served up the usual excuse.
• 22. It is usual to start a speech by thanking everybody for coming.
• 23. The piece is written in his usual expansive style.
• 24. Several more people than usual came to the meeting.
• 25. You're not your usual cheerful self today.
• 26. As usual at that hour, the place was deserted.
• 27. Steve, as usual, was the last to arrive.
• 28. All the usual mob were there.
• 29. She is following her usual policy of ignoring all offers of help.
• 30. The vintage was later than usual.
• 31. He came home later than usual.
• 32. He didn't sound like his usual happy self.
• 33. Everyone blamed me as per usual.
• 34. Her latest book isn't up to her usual standard.
• 35. She fell back on her usual excuse of having no time.
• 36. We had all the usual problems attendant upon starting a new business.
• 37. The festival has the usual mixture of movies ─ good, bad and indifferent.
• 38. There was complete anarchy in the classroom when their usual teacher was away.
• 39. As usual, Tom was in full flow.
• 40. It did not conform to the usual stereotype of an industrial city.
• 41. He soon recovered his usual self-possession.
• 42. As usual, I got landed with all the boring jobs.
• 43. Shares were trading at under half their usual value.
• 44. Bob introduced her to some of the usual crowd.
• 45. She had to spend nearly four months away from him that summer, instead of the usual two.
• 46. He is in a much better mood than usual.
• 47. He was in a less jocular mood than usual.
• 48. She would, he assumed, be home at the usual time.