How to use "ordinary" in a sentence

I went to an ordinary school for a year

I just want to live in an ordinary way now

At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal

I don't claim any constitutionality for a rebellion successful or otherwise, so long as that rebellion means in the ordinary sense of the term, what it does mean, namely, wresting justice by violent means

He was a strong supporter of the Catholic church and the aristocracy, and he took away the freedoms that Napoleon had given the ordinary citizens

The ordinary people liked him at first, but he soon showed that he was more interested in power for his family than democracy for his people

An ordinary face with small dark eyes and dirty brown hair

All with tidy and ordinary gardens and ordinary cars

Sala stepped into a room: an ordinary earth apartment, just like thousands of others.

She bought a quart of nonfat milk and a loaf of whole-wheat bread that was cut thin for dieters, so each serving contained only half the calories of an ordinary slice of bread

She took hold of the two lines - one heavy cable and one ordinary insulated wire - and they seemed to come alive in her hands, like a pair of snakes, resisting her

"Just two ordinary people against them?"

But any organization was composed of ordinary men and women, none of whom had the all-seeing gaze of God.

She wanted to be enjoying an ordinary meal, on an ordinary evening, in the middle of a blissfully ordinary life, with every reason to expect a long, comfortable, ordinary future

They were just ordinary people in a roadside restaurant, having dinner.

Willis Bruckster was so sure he appeared dull and ordinary that he wouldn't have been surprised if a guard had looked at him and yawned.

When they had landed, they'd been alert for unusual activity on the runway and in the private-craft docking yard - suspicious vehicles, an unusual number of ground crewmen - but they had seen nothing out of the ordinary

It's just that for more than fifteen years, I've led a very ordinary life, a workaday life

After all, he had never killed an ordinary citizen or a person of real worth

Who were these two people? Why weren't they hiding in a dark corner somewhere? Why weren't they scared witless? Christina Evans was only an ordinary woman

Opposite the sliding door through which she and Elliot had entered, the security room was another door of more ordinary dimensions and construction

"We're not flying into an ordinary storm

It was ringed by ordinary medical equipment as well as by several mysterious electronic monitors.

The writers had envisioned a heated roadbed not as ordinary blacktop but as an arrangement of thousands of interconnected hot-plate griddles

She had been very willing to speak about her life with my brother - which seemed a happy and ordinary one - up to the time he died

'Only that it is probably a very ordinary murder, by an angry poacher most likely.'

And it wasn't an ordinary sneeze.'

Nothing about a crime is ever ordinary

It seems to me almost unbelievably wonderful that, with that danger threatening us, people could continue their ordinary business as they did

Now I was my normal self again - an ordinary citizen

An ordinary engineer is much better educated than a common soldier, and they discussed, with some intelligence, the odd conditions of the possible fight.

It was interesting that he, an ordinary soldier, seemed to have a much better understanding of the situation than I, a professional writer.

Mercy would move back to the house, perhaps find a man who was more - ordinary, let's say