Air travel has now become commonplace. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
In the hush of a beautiful Sunday morning the new missionary begins what she calls the commonplace work of the day. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary] Reference
One of the fields where researchers believe wireless sensor technology could be commonplace is in the health care setting. From Wordnik.com. [Wireless Sensors Extend Internet’s Reach | Impact Lab] Reference
To them joy shines forth from even the so-called commonplace things of life. From Wordnik.com. [School, Church, and Home Games] Reference
In a period when cross-sectarian relationships were commonplace, that is thin gruel. From Wordnik.com. [Stromata Blog:] Reference
"Marilla's taste is not what one might call commonplace," said Mrs. Graham, with a smile. From Wordnik.com. [A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches] Reference
And there won't be enough such interconnections to make external HD calls commonplace for years. From Wordnik.com. [VoIP News - Making VoIP Connections] Reference
What we call "characters" were to be found in every cottage -- the commonplace was the exception. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.] Reference
Very little was revealed that any well-informed social worker does not know as a commonplace about the mill population. From Wordnik.com. [A Preface to Politics] Reference
I suppose because nothing really worth noting has occurred, and it is not for nothing that a diary is called a commonplace book. From Wordnik.com. [Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes] Reference
"I was beginning to think no-hitters were kind of commonplace," Longoria said. From Wordnik.com. [Brandon Morrow No Hitter Bid Blown With One Out To Go (VIDEO)] Reference
Rather, it would seem to me the use of a scar as an image in fiction is "commonplace". From Wordnik.com. [The hat trick] Reference
Here are some incidents which reveal to us the nature of what she deemed her "commonplace" work. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary] Reference
First off, I'd like to know if IVs are "commonplace" interventions for healthy newborns in the hospital. From Wordnik.com. [Alison Rose Levy: Dennis Quaid's Misdiagnosis] Reference
The obfuscating spirit of the "commonplace," meanwhile, is "ever covering the deep and clouding the high.". From Wordnik.com. [OK, Virginia, There's No Santa Claus. But There] Reference
Jonathan Schwartz was playing something by Nancy Lamott on WHYY, and I was trying to think of a 9 letter word meaning "commonplace". From Wordnik.com. [Sunny with a Chance of Meatballs] Reference
So why isn't her name commonplace?. From Wordnik.com. [theithacajournal.com -] Reference
Brunetière should dismiss Bernard as "commonplace". From Wordnik.com. [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century] Reference
The more "commonplace" these facts the better they seemed to like them. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Lights and Shadows] Reference
I can’t say your kind of power is what anyone would call commonplace. From Wordnik.com. [Orchid] Reference
'' I was beginning to think no-hitters were kind of commonplace, '' Longoria said. From Wordnik.com. [FOXSports.com News] Reference
This kind of commonplace "capture" isn't a pure and obvious betrayal of liberal purposes. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
This is already "commonplace" today, it will just become more apparent in the months to come. From Wordnik.com. [World of SL] Reference
His mother was silent; her plan of making things "commonplace" was not as simple as she thought. From Wordnik.com. [The Iron Woman] Reference
Ah, there are no such phenomena in the world really, as "commonplace" lives, and "commonplace" persons!. From Wordnik.com. [Dreams and Dream Stories] Reference
It was "commonplace" among a circle of players revelling in the "high life" to videotape what was going on. From Wordnik.com. [dailyindia.com News Feed] Reference
It is a very useful kind of commonplace book, and soon becomes as fascinating as autumn and spring catalogues. From Wordnik.com. [Mary's Meadow And Other Tales of Fields and Flowers] Reference
It's the kind of commonplace remark any suburban father would make to his kids, alluding to the animated film. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Or there is a good wide margin of the commonplace which is sure to put them on good terms with the mass of their fellow-citizens. From Wordnik.com. [Birds and Poets : with Other Papers] Reference
"commonplace" in India and come out of their houses. From Wordnik.com. [StartupDunia] Reference
"But don't you feel yourself, Violet, a kind of commonplace-ness about. From Wordnik.com. [Julian Home] Reference
"commonplace"; Charlotte Brontë was not much otherwise minded; her own. From Wordnik.com. [The English Novel] Reference
"commonplace" day offers sights of sober grandeur to the eyes of the wise man. From Wordnik.com. [Side Lights] Reference
Ironically, Wei's exile comes at a time when his ideas, radical in 1978, are now commonplace. From Wordnik.com. [What Now For Wei?] Reference
He is the confident, proud success that I hoped by now would be commonplace in the black community if only we could participate. From Wordnik.com. [A Challenge To Change] Reference
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