Commonplaces
[kɔmənpleisiz]
Examples
- My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- They were familiar; many of them commonplaces--sun, moon, planets, weight, distance, mass, square of numbers. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He was nervous and apparently in quite good spirits, chattering the conventional commonplaces. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Typist: Malcolm