Below you will find example sentences with "ordinary people". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Ordinary People in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: ordinary
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 28
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 30.1 words

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 5 start, 11 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "ordinary people" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 30.1 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as and give ordinary people a real, and if ordinary people can get, real, different and governor stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with young people, homeless people, indigenous people, ordinary citizens and ordinary shares, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with ordinary people

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Their humour often involved ordinary people in ordinary situations behaving absurdly for no obvious reason. (15 words)

The statement said, “They view Brixton as an ordinary middle-income suburb with ordinary houses and ordinary people. (18 words)

He praised Wike for working for the ordinary people, a situation which has made him very close to the people. (20 words)

While these uprisings seem spontaneous, in every country where ordinary people have risen up in 2019, activists have been working for years to build the movements that eventually brought large numbers of people onto the streets and into the headlines. (40 words)

Giving the people a real say: An emergency Citizens’ Assembly will empower MPs to make tough decisions, and give ordinary people a real say in the pathway of a fair and just transition to a thriving zero-carbon society. (39 words)

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. (38 words)

Example sentences (20)

The statement said, “They view Brixton as an ordinary middle-income suburb with ordinary houses and ordinary people.

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.

Their humour often involved ordinary people in ordinary situations behaving absurdly for no obvious reason.

The "mature" Larkin style, first evident in The Less Deceived, is "that of the detached, sometimes lugubrious, sometimes tender observer", who, in Hartley's phrase, looks at "ordinary people doing ordinary things".

The novel epitomizes many of Dick's themes with its concerns about the nature of reality and ordinary people in ordinary lives having the world unravel around them.

He mingled with people from different groups from intellectuals, merchants, preachers, farmers, and ordinary people to Sufi dervishes and even thieves, trying to learn and study and also preach and advise people to gravitate to wisdom and morality.

They show the effect of Imperial occupation on ordinary people and examine the lengths that people go to in order to fight back.

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You all must have heard the word terrorism which probably means spreading fear in the people of country by killing ordinary people for political purposes and now the cyberspace is getting exploited to terrorism.

Giving the people a real say: An emergency Citizens’ Assembly will empower MPs to make tough decisions, and give ordinary people a real say in the pathway of a fair and just transition to a thriving zero-carbon society.

Kolo assured the people of Niger State that the Governor Abubakar Sani Bello-led administration will continue to implement policies and programmes that will improve the lives of the ordinary people of the state.

Nurses, doctors, medical students and ordinary people with first aid training have all clamoured to join what has become a small volunteer corps helping treat people on the frontlines of the Hong Kong protests.

The “Ordinary People” singer said while he’s excited, it’s a lot of pressure since he’ll likely be picked apart by people questioning if he’s deserving of the title.

While these uprisings seem spontaneous, in every country where ordinary people have risen up in 2019, activists have been working for years to build the movements that eventually brought large numbers of people onto the streets and into the headlines.

He praised Wike for working for the ordinary people, a situation which has made him very close to the people.

When paired with technology that can synthesize real people's voices, apps such as FakeApp could make it extremely difficult for ordinary people to distinguish what's real from what's fake.

It was Jimmy Wales, along with other people, who came up with the broader idea of an open-source, collaborative encyclopedia that would accept contributions from ordinary people and it was Wales who invested in it.

Ordinary people may tend to imagine other people as basically the same, not significantly more or less valuable, probably attached emotionally to different groups and different land.

Or they may encourage ordinary people to get involved with broader projects of social change. citation Misleading volunteers A lot of people volunteer to work to support Fairtrade.

After listening to John's music at Kanye's urging, the Ordinary People singer ends up walking into the studio.

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