Ordinary used in a sentence

Ordinary in a sentence as a noun

The ordinary human being would sooner starve than live on brown bread and raw carrots.

Yes, it would, but the point is that no ordinary human being is ever going to do such a thing.

In this sense, an ordinary consumer is more of a job creator than a capitalist like me.

I can say with confidence that your experience with WP Engine is out of the ordinary, but no excuses.

Ergo this was not an ordinary McDonald's, but one with security people looking for cameras.

It would be unethical if the tables were turned and ordinary citizens were getting their emails released.

I learned how to talk to other people and gather information about the market from ordinary conversations.

Receipt of such stock is a taxable transaction and, indeed, would constitute ordinary income to the Winklevoss brothers.

Ordinary in a sentence as an adjective

If the paper value of the stock is high, owing to recent funding rounds, you will have to pay ordinary income tax on the spread between your exercise price and the then fair market value.

The story highlights something I think anti-rail proponents always miss: the lifetime of this infrastructure is far beyond what ordinary businesses deal with.

We construe criminal statutes narrowly so that Congress will not unintentionally turn ordinary citizens into criminals.

Perhaps, as we listen to superstars less and to ordinary people more, the pressure to play like a superstar or not play at all will drop away and we'll reclaim the tradition of participatory music that we've been robbed of.

The subject is standard fodder for comedy, and an uncooperative suspect being threatened with rape in prison is now represented, every night on television, as an ordinary and rather lovable bit of policing.

"Speaking of special privileges, the extraordinary differential between the 15% tax rate that capitalists pay on carried interest, dividends, and capital gains, and the 35% top marginal rate on work that ordinary Americans pay, is kind of hard to justify without a touch of deification.

""For man's everyday needs, it would have been quite enough to have the ordinary human consciousness, that is, half or a quarter of the amount which falls to the lot of a cultivated man of our unhappy nineteenth century, especially one who has the fatal ill-luck to inhabit Petersburg, the most theoretical and intentional town on the whole terrestrial globe.