How to Use typical in a Sentence
typical
adjective- It was his typical response.
- We wanted him to have the typical college experience of living on campus.
- It was a typical Saturday night for us.
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The fan has the typical three speeds: low, medium, and high.
—Nor'adila Hepburn, Southern Living, 7 Aug. 2023
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The typical chance of a such a storm is around 10 percent.
—Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
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His typical get: four or five — and that’s in a good week.
—Ovetta Wiggins, Baltimore Sun, 28 Mar. 2022
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That’s the reverse of how typical M&A talks tend to go.
—Kiel Porter, Fortune, 5 Dec. 2023
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The city’s typical debt on the venue is around $1.8 million.
—al, 5 Mar. 2022
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It was filled with art and textiles and all the trappings of typical town life.
—Christine Lennon, Sunset Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
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Tobin made sure the crew got the chance to taste some of the props, like a typical 1960s cake that people got to take home.
—Pat Saperstein, Variety, 14 Dec. 2023
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The palate is robust, bold, sweet, and spicy, typical of high rye mash bill whiskeys.
—Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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The Vancouver Rat Project found that, in a typical day, the city’s brown rats stay within the length of a city block.
—WIRED, 7 Oct. 2023
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Most of the boats in the event were typical kayaks and canoes that can be seen on the rivers but these came with extra bling.
—Hg Biggs, Kansas City Star, 9 June 2024
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That's not typical for a campaign with this kind of cash flow.
—Steve Contorno, CNN, 8 Apr. 2022
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The music that has come out of this city is so typical of New Orleans.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 20 Jan. 2022
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Here's what a typical chest and back day looks like in Filly's gym.
—Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 18 Aug. 2022
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The Yankees did not offer a free suite, which is typical for the club, even for the biggest stars.
—Eric Jackson, Sportico.com, 12 Dec. 2024
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The typical formation is four couples in the shape of a square.
—Shirley MacFarland, cleveland, 19 Aug. 2022
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That’s pretty typical, Marvin said, even though the Wildlife Area crew set out hay at each of the sites on Dec. 1.
—Jayson Jacoby, oregonlive, 17 Dec. 2021
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Far from the typical empty gesture, the seed of the idea grew to be the project that would reinvigorate them.
—Max Pilley, SPIN, 18 Oct. 2023
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On a typical summer day at Belmont, the swells come at you like smooth knee-high ramps.
—Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2024
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That’s a far stride from the 1,000 that millipede typical stands for.
—Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 18 Dec. 2021
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Friends called and came by and said the typical condolences.
—Malaka Gharib, NPR, 23 Dec. 2024
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As is typical in the spring, the number of homes on the market increased in March from the previous month.
—CBS News, 20 Apr. 2022
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In typical Pastrana fashion, he's just thrilled for the chance to do something fun in a car.
—Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 18 Jan. 2023
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The two stood proud in their black scrubs — a departure from the typical pink scrubs worn in the department.
—Alexandra Schonfeld, People.com, 27 Mar. 2025
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The house is typical of the modest cottages built in the area, with a front gable and adjacent porch over the main entry.
—Arkansas Online, 2 May 2025
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Aside from the fight being eight two-minute rounds, both the men will wear heavier 14-ounce gloves instead of the typical 10-ounce gloves.
—Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 22 Nov. 2024
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Bacalao is served in all manner of dishes; one of the most popular is with pil-pil sauce, made of olive oil, garlic and the juice of the fish, and typical in the Basque Country.
—Jon Yeomans, CNN Money, 7 June 2025
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The new requirements must be implemented as part of the state’s typical curriculum updates, the next of which is in 2028.
—Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 5 June 2025
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