How to Use ordinary in a Sentence

ordinary

adjective

• The meal was ordinary and uninspired.
• My wife thought our guide was strange, but he seemed perfectly ordinary to me.
• They've had the ordinary problems associated with starting a new business.
• That was just very, very much out of the ordinary for me.
  — Gillian Telling, Peoplemag, 19 Dec. 2023
• The battery is said to last for up to 30 days of ordinary use.
  — PCMAG, 16 Apr. 2024
• Vogue: There’s a lot going in this film that’s out of the ordinary.
  — Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 5 Apr. 2024
• The buds shift in ordinary use and the seal is not consistent.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Nov. 2023
• This isn't anything out of the ordinary for the activist and actress.
  — Zizi Strater, Peoplemag, 10 May 2023
• If the people who live and work in ordinary ways give up, then the things that need to change will never change.
  — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 13 Feb. 2024
• Rustin honors Bayard and the thousands of ordinary folks from all walks of life.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 31 Aug. 2023
• Scharre said Jack’s reaction was not out of the ordinary.
  — Mike Wagner, The Courier-Journal, 22 June 2023
• Cons: The slices are too large to put in an ordinary toaster without breaking them in half.
  — Endia Fontanez, The Arizona Republic, 31 May 2023
• In the West Bank, ordinary Palestinians are bracing for worse to come.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2023
• These kids may not always be comfortable in the humdrum, ordinary world, but the film is full of hope.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2024
• The mall vacancy rate is 107% above the ordinary retail rate.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2024
• Even an ordinary secretary or a housewife or a teenager can turn on a small light in a dark room.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 May 2023
• But in the path of totality, something was clearly out of the ordinary.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2024
• One-quarter of the 100 desks are ordinary blond-wood furniture.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 14 July 2023
• Long ago, a sense of resignation took root, that ordinary people have no control over or say in the course of events.
  — Ben Wedeman, CNN, 17 May 2023
• Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton are a lot like ordinary couples.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 28 Dec. 2023
• While March snow isn't out of the ordinary in the state most years, this winter has been exceptionally snowless.
  — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 22 Mar. 2024
• Rides are expected to be slightly more expensive than an ordinary taxi but in the same price range as a private car like Uber.
  — Aimee Look, CNN, 27 Sep. 2023
• The accents are brown at ordinary through-stations, like Solferino, and green at junctions like Pasteur.
  — Andrew Martin, Travel + Leisure, 15 Jan. 2024
• How to open ourselves up to love and wonder and to marvel at every moment, no matter how ordinary.
  — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 29 Nov. 2023
• Silent Night is a human story about an ordinary man seeking revenge against this huge gang.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Dec. 2023
• But neither the ordinary Georgia voter nor the ordinary sports fan was given a say.
  — The Editors, National Review, 17 Nov. 2023
• But in the 1950s, the Folkways label assigned itself the task of documenting the whole world of sound, and sharing it with ordinary listeners.
  — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 6 Nov. 2023
• For both the executive high priests and the ordinary worshippers of Marvelism, the gnostic gospel of Stanley Martin Lieber amounts to heresy.
  — Abraham Josephine Riesman, Vulture, 22 June 2023
• Biden will give the speech, watched more closely than ever this year, ears straining to hear any misstep, any gaffe, anything remotely out of the ordinary.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 5 Mar. 2024
• Some might call my days ordinary: Unload the dishwasher, walk the dog, run errands, visit my 89-year-old mother.
  — Stefanie Wass, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024