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01. During an [ordinary] week, you can expect to do about 4 to 5 hours of homework.
02. She may be a super-model, but when she takes off all her make-up, and put on her jeans and a T-shirt, she actually looks quite [ordinary].
03. The bars are [ordinarily] quite busy at this time of night, but things are very slow right now because of the beer strike.
04. I want to visit the places tourists don't [ordinarily] find out about.
05. Our cheesecake has half the calories of [ordinary] cheesecake.
06. The office [ordinarily] gets very busy around 3:00.
07. Ian is a very [ordinary] tennis player, but an excellent badminton player.
08. Movies always seem to be about people who are rich or wonderfully talented rather than simple, [ordinary] people like you and me.
09. You can [ordinarily] expect to learn about 40 words per week if you work hard.
10. On an [ordinary] day at the tourist bureau, we receive about 400 calls for information at the tourist office, but sometimes we get as many as 750.
11. What looked like an [ordinary] storm turned into a hurricane that cost four people their lives.
12. Harry Emerson Fosdick once said that democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in [ordinary] people.
13. A professor of criminal justice remarked that the typical mass murderer is extraordinarily [ordinary].
14. [Ordinarily], the body cannot go more than a week and a half without water.
15. A Mongolian proverb suggests that wise men talk about ideas, intellectuals about facts, and the [ordinary] man talks about what he eats.

Grammatical examples in English. 2013.

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  • ordinary — or·di·nary adj: of a kind to be expected from the average person or in the normal course of events; broadly: of a common kind or degree an ordinary proceeding compare extraordinary Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …   Law dictionary

  • Ordinary — • Denotes any person possessing or exercising ordinary jurisdiction Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Ordinary     Ordinary     † …   Catholic encyclopedia

  • Ordinary — Or di*na*ry, n.; pl. {Ordinaries} ( r[i^]z). 1. (Law) (a) (Roman Law) An officer who has original jurisdiction in his own right, and not by deputation. (b) (Eng. Law) One who has immediate jurisdiction in matters ecclesiastical; an ecclesiastical …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Ordinary — Or di*na*ry, a. [L. ordinarius, fr. ordo, ordinis, order: cf. F. ordinaire. See {Order}.] 1. According to established order; methodical; settled; regular. The ordinary forms of law. Addison. [1913 Webster] 2. Common; customary; usual. Shak. [1913 …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • ordinary — ► ADJECTIVE 1) with no distinctive features; normal or usual. 2) (of a judge, archbishop, or bishop) exercising authority by virtue of office and not by delegation. ► NOUN (pl. ordinaries) 1) (Ordinary) those parts of a Roman Catholic service,… …   English terms dictionary

  • ordinary — (adj.) mid 15c., belonging to the usual order or course, from O.Fr. ordinarie, from L. ordinarius customary, regular, usual, orderly, from ordo (gen. ordinis) order (see ORDER (Cf. order) (n.)). Various noun usages, dating to late 14c. and common …   Etymology dictionary

  • ordinary — Shortened designation for ordinary mail …   Glossary of postal terms

  • ordinary — [adj1] common, regular accustomed, customary, established, everyday, familiar, frequent, general, habitual, humdrum*, natural, normal, popular, prevailing, public, quotidian, routine, run of the mill*, settled, standard, stock, traditional,… …   New thesaurus

  • ordinary — [ôrd′ n er΄ē] n. pl. ordinaries [OFr & ML: OFr ordinarie < ML(Ec) ordinarius < L, an overseer, orig., orderly, regular < ordo,ORDER] 1. a) an official having jurisdiction within a specified area by right of the office he or she holds;… …   English World dictionary

  • ordinary — adj *common, familiar, popular, vulgar Analogous words: *usual, customary, habitual, wonted, accustomed Antonyms: extraordinary Contrasted words: *abnormal, atypical, aberrant: *exceptional: *irregular …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • ordinary — 1. noun At common law, one who had exempt and immediate jurisdiction in causes ecclesiastical. Also a bishop; and an archbishop is the ordinary of the whole province, to visit and receive appeals from inferior jurisdictions. Also a commissary or… …   Black's law dictionary

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