be ordinary

Frequency: 8.015.2 per million words

to have the quality of being normal or average

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Examples (10)

  • The wines produced were very ordinary.
  • It was a perfectly ordinary day, nothing special happened.
  • Sometimes, life can be quite ordinary, and that's okay.
  • Despite his fame, he always tried to be an ordinary person.
  • Her first novel was surprisingly ordinary, given her talent.
  • I don't want my work to be just ordinary; I aim for excellence.
  • Before the discovery, the village was completely ordinary.
  • He tries to be as ordinary as possible to avoid attention.
  • If you let your routine be too ordinary, you might get bored.
  • Do you think his performance was truly ordinary, or did he hold back?