Get to know Ordinary better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like common or average.
Ordinary in a sentence
Ordinary meaning
- A person with authority; authority, ordinance.
- A person having immediate jurisdiction in a given case of ecclesiastical law, such as the bishop within a diocese.
Synonyms of Ordinary
Using Ordinary
- The main meaning on this page is: A person with authority; authority, ordinance. | A person having immediate jurisdiction in a given case of ecclesiastical law, such as the bishop within a diocese. | A person with authority; authority, ordinance.
- Useful related words include: common, average, mundane, everyday.
- In the example corpus, ordinary often appears in combinations such as: an ordinary, the ordinary, ordinary people.
Example sentences (20)
The statement said, “They view Brixton as an ordinary middle-income suburb with ordinary houses and ordinary people.
As the mob was visibly suppressing ordinary governance — and therefore ordinary freedom — in the Lone Star State, the Obama White House simply tweeted out encouragement to them.
Roggen’s road is no ordinary road, and the house on the corner is no ordinary house.
She was in her bed in an ordinary house in Brisbane, on an ordinary night.
Above all, the shocking realisation that the accused rapists were not 'monsters' but 'ordinary men' who showed exactly what 'ordinary men' are capable of.
If the problem is “Islamists” and not ordinary British Muslims, why does the government treat ordinary Muslims so vastly differently from the other communities it engages with?
Diluted net loss per ordinary share is equivalent to basic net loss per ordinary share.
He was an ordinary Dad who did those ordinary things that such men do.
One might quickly object that nothing about the present is “ordinary,” and that a desire for an “ordinary” resolution is at best quaint, and more likely a dangerous illusion.
Sdn Bhd ("Green & Smart Ventures Sdn Bhd") for a share for share exchange regarding the ordinary shares in BiON plc and ordinary shares in BiON Ventures.
But these are no ordinary times, and this is no ordinary president.
Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary amount of determination –John F. Kennedy.
He named his major band “The Smiths” to celebrate “the ordinary folk” with an ordinary name.
It is not just any other city on the bank of any ordinary river of this planet, its habitants are not ordinary city-dwellers.
Onoja went down memory lane to remind them on how the Governor started his political journey through engagement with ordinary stakeholders and his eventual enthronement, saying it was high time for ordinary people to own the Bello enterprise.
She said she was delighted to be honoured with an MBE, saying: 'I feel I am an ordinary person and if ordinary people can get recognised for the work they do, it is fantastic.
So those who climb willingly into death traps aren’t viewed as “infiltrators” or “cargo” or self-seeking foreigners on the make, but ordinary folk like you or me, dreaming ordinary dreams of a life worth living.
Then I sit myself down in an ordinary wooden chair at an ordinary typewriter and grind ‘em out just like that.
Wherever the project goes next, it will highlight the stories of heroes both ordinary and not-so-ordinary.
All political offices were held by ordinary citizens, randomly selected, and all legal judgments in the city’s courts were reached by large juries of ordinary citizens, similarly selected.
Common combinations with ordinary
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- an ordinary 38×
- the ordinary 31×
- ordinary people 28×
- no ordinary 17×
- of ordinary 13×
- and ordinary 10×
- ordinary citizens 10×
- in ordinary 9×
- for ordinary 8×
- ordinary shares 5×