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How to use the word commonplace in a Sentence?

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The fabulous is never anything but the commonplace touched by the hand of genius.

Marlies van den Broek

added by Gawiza
7 months ago

Some of this is so commonplace that if we take every single comment seriously, we spend too much energy on it.

Charlotte Markey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’ve never been through a transaction or a roster move, which is commonplace and day-to-day for the majority of the locker room, so it was a different week, it was a different experience.

Indianapolis Colts

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Even prior to the pandemic, working remotely was becoming more commonplace. The pandemic helped escalate this rising trend to create a major shift in how and where people work. While many typical home floor plans include one home office, most households have two working adults and therefore the demand for two home offices has naturally grown in recent years.

Sarit Marcus

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Beards have become more commonplace and accepted in our society, even in professional settings, the public has had a positive reception to our deputies’ beards. I’ve even received positive comments myself, so I will be participating along with many deputies, and it’s all for great causes.

Sheriff Craig Webre

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

That Vincent Jackson brain showed stage 2 CTE should no longer surprise us ; these results have become commonplace. What is surprising is that so many football players have died with CTE and so little is being done to make football, at all levels, safer by limiting the number of repetitive subconcussive hits.

Ann McKee

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think people in personal circles talk their own personal way from their own groups they think are private, you may say some stuff to a good buddy of yours you’ve known for a long time that you wouldn’t say to anybody else in the world. On the golf course, I might say a few things I would never say to anyone else. Just the way it is. [Jon’s] a great person, great human and great football coach but I wouldn’t say it’s commonplace. It just happened the way it happened.

Jay Gruden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

You see the trend of the game. The pitch count's one thing — you don't necessarily see guys go above 110. I feel like a few years ago that was more commonplace. Teams are building their bullpens.

Zac Gallen

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Under Japanese labour law, if you are a permanent employee, refusing a job transfer or other job assignment is the same as saying that you are quitting, it’s so commonplace that people just think it’s normal.

Rochelle Kopp

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

This has become kind of commonplace in Texas.

Carole Baskin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

To give support should be commonplace in our society, not to be asked for.

Isaac Mashman

added by isaacmashman
3 years ago

The sexual revolution has led to exploitation of women on a scale that we would never have imagined, eric Greitens know what I'm talking about, the 1960s, 1970s, it became commonplace in our culture among our cultural elites, Hollywood, and the media to talk about -- to denigrate the biblical truth about husband and wife, man and woman.

Eric Greitens

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Eric Greitens know what I'm talking about, the 1960s, 1970s, it became commonplace in our culture among our cultural elites, Hollywood, and the media to talk about -- to denigrate the biblical truth about husband and wife, man and woman.

Josh Hawley

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The much occupied man has no time for wantonness, and it is an obvious commonplace that the evils of leisure can be shaken off by hard work.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

added by Normando
3 years ago

There's nothing in it that isn't extremely commonplace, i'm much more interested in our culture and thinking, how are we all part of this awful knot that we need to unpick ?

Emerald Fennell

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It is so commonplace, they may see it as a form of acceptable, possibly even pro-social, interaction with their peers.

Alison Culyba

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This includes the gruesome and grisly video games that are now commonplace.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Female politicians in Japan must battle against the commonplace view that politics belongs to men, they also face barriers when it comes to juggling family and political life.

Fujie Masahiro

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It's commonplace for trans women to be assaulted or murdered, but we don't tend to get this kind of attention from law enforcement or the bigger community.

Kirk Myers

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Commonplace where we do see a lot of people coming into the cars. Weve been broken into twice.

Sheila Barrios

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Left-wing social policies sicken our behavior and corrupt our culture. People bend principles and sacrifice integrity to get as much as they can from the government. Giveaway programs encourage every imaginable sort of cheating and dishonesty. Wheeling and dealing in food stamps is a way of life. Lying and fraud are commonplace. Whenever you're dependent on the money, the end justifies the means.

James R. Cook

added by anonymous
5 years ago

The problem that we've got is, we're trying like the dickens to treat the symptom without treating the disease, and the disease in this case isn't the Second Amendment ; the disease is youngsters who are steeped in a culture of violence, they've been drugged in many cases. Nearly all of these perpetrators are male, and they're young teenagers in most cases, and they've come through a culture where violence is commonplace.

Oliver North

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It’s going to allow people in and out of the city for major events with less congestion, it’s going to allow them to find parking spots quicker through mobile applications on their phones and parking lot sensors. It will expose people to these advanced technologies that are going to be commonplace in five, 10 years.

Doug Marsden

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Failed deliveries are commonplace, inconveniencing citizens, holding back the operations of both businesses and government, and raising the cost of deliveries.

Rhys Jones

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

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