How to Use garden-variety in a Sentence

garden-variety

adjective

• But Tatum is more than just your garden-variety charmer.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
• This will not be your garden-variety sports labor dispute.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Mar. 2026
• Childhood Neil has an imaginary friend to cope with the garden-variety angst.
  — Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 June 2025
• Underneath, a few key upgrades set it apart from the garden-variety wagon.
  — Byron Hurd, The Drive, 22 Jan. 2026
• Robert Redford was not your garden-variety celebrity.
  — Peter Biskind, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2025
• Not everything Richards played was your garden-variety, risk-averse sideways pass.
  — Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 13 June 2026
• But he’s not motivated by garden-variety vengeance.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 28 Aug. 2025
• Faced with garden-variety brutal minutes rather than some of the toughest on record, Seider took a major step forward.
  — The Athletic Nhl, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2025
• Meanwhile, any storms that pop up in the Kansas City area should stay garden-variety thunderstorms, forecasters said.
  — Kansas City Star, 31 July 2026
• Sure, there are your garden-variety influencers with their performative prossecco and rental resortwear, but these guests don’t announce their net worth—because their wears do it for them.
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Feb. 2026
• But peppered in between the back-and-forth comments with garden-variety Internet trolls are criticisms of his onetime colleagues.
  — Gregory Royal Pratt, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2026
• And yet, with this much interesting talent packed into one team, Chad Powers doesn’t quite sink to the level of a garden-variety disaster.
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025
• For Farouk, revenge is worth more than money, which would seem more compelling a motive if the show weren’t intent on turning him into a garden-variety bloodthirsty terrorist than a villain with a point.
  — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2025
• Teddy’s reasoning is a confusion of save-the-world alarmism, garden-variety derangement, unhealed trauma, and single-minded revenge.
  — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
• The threat of severe weather, however, has shifted east, leaving the Kansas City area with more garden-variety thunderstorms, according to the weather service.
  — Kansas City Star, 4 Aug. 2026
• Its capabilities and autonomy present a potent enterprise threat vector beyond the realm of garden-variety security concerns.
  — Pieter Danhieux, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
• Some point to the usual suspects — the Illuminati, Bohemian Grove, garden-variety Satanists.
  — Lane Brown, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2025
• In a career spanning six decades, Weir was key to developing the Grateful Dead from garden-variety psychedelic rockers as the Warlocks to godfathers of the jam band genre.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 15 Jan. 2026
• All of which might be dismissed as garden-variety conspiracy, not to mention being beyond the organizational capacity of the Democratic Party.
  — Chris Smith, Vanity Fair, 17 Mar. 2026
• There are generic, garden-variety villains like Mole Man (Paul Walter Hauser), who the Four easily defeat while being the darlings of their community and the world.
  — Ken Makin, Christian Science Monitor, 25 July 2025
• The new round revealed Base’s valuation spiked from $4 billion to $13 billion in less than a year—outsized for a garden-variety electricity business, but not necessarily for an innovative tech startup.
  — Jordan Blum, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2026