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Example sentences for "ordinary circumstances"

  • But in ordinary circumstances, when the inquirer's mind is rapidly urged through the various stages of the above piece of logic, he is left to face the future and blot out the past with a formula of words.

  • In ordinary circumstances, and in health, the human organism is in thorough correspondence with its surroundings; but when any part of the organism by disease or accident is thrown out of correspondence, it is in that relation dead.

  • In ordinary circumstances I should simply have warned you against going fishing to-day, and thus checkmated the foe again; but that would have been inartistic.

  • In ordinary circumstances my people would have called upon you.

  • It is many years since we entertained at Ravenspur, nor do we, in ordinary circumstances, desire them.

  • In ordinary circumstances he would have been a fine man of over six feet in height.

  • If Kelson might, in ordinary circumstances, have wondered at the motive for his friend's proposal, which was but thinly disguised, he was in too happy a state of preoccupation to trouble his head about it.

  • In ordinary circumstances I should have dealt pretty shortly with him.

  • In ordinary circumstances, when a swarm is first hived, they set about comb-making immediately; yet sometimes they will remain two days, and not make a particle.

  • I cannot recommend putting them on as early as the last of April, or first of May, in ordinary circumstances.

  • In ordinary circumstances he would simply have walked in and called some one from the kitchen.

  • A night journey from Greenock to London is a sufficiently prosaic affair in ordinary circumstances, but it need not be always so.

  • This locket open, and showing both portraits, she had fixed on to a small stand, and in ordinary circumstances it always stood on one side of her dressing-table.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ordinary circumstances" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    annual tribute; borrowing money; conjure you; degrees east; direct tendency; foreign land; further remarks; here spoken; official letter; ordinary cases; ordinary circumstances; ordinary consciousness; ordinary degree; ordinary human; ordinary language; ordinary light; ordinary occasions; ordinary people; ordinary seaman; ordinary speech; ordinary times; perhaps not; plain white; puzzled expression; want any; what wilt