commonplaceness

Example Sentences

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She reread the story and blushed for her commonplaceness.

From Molly Brown's Junior Days by Speed, Nell

His Army and Navy girls are better, because they are redeemed from commonplaceness by their patriotism.

From The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers by Merwin, Henry Childs

"Our experience doesn't leave much of Herrick's idea about the commonplaceness of crime—" "Oh, yes, it does!"

From "Persons Unknown" by Tracy, Virginia

And it almost distressed him to see the touch of genial commonplaceness expressing itself pervasively in the big bowls and jars and vases of pink roses that burgeoned everywhere.

From The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas

Let not the commonplaceness of the words rob us of their meaning.

From Theology and the Social Consciousness A Study of the Relations of the Social Consciousness to Theology (2nd ed.) by King, Henry Churchill