Example Sentences

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Defence counsel Tony Graham KC said of Gilmour: "He is an unextraordinary man who has led an unextraordinary life."

From BBC • Jul. 18, 2025

This could be really unextraordinary stuff - running for a train, pushing the vacuum cleaner around, playing with the kids or the dogs, carrying in the heavy shopping or taking the stairs.

From BBC • Mar. 3, 2023

Clarissa’s pleasant but seemingly unextraordinary day is nevertheless infused with “life; London; this moment of June.”

From New York Times • Dec. 23, 2020

Today marks the annual pilgrimage I make with a few friends down to the South-West's most unextraordinary racecourse.

From The Guardian • Sep. 6, 2010

But if it meant that I’d finally be able to put my grandfather’s mystery to rest and get on with my unextraordinary life, anything I had to endure would be worth it.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs