"This Mr. Tyrrel," she said, in a tone of authoritative decision, "seems after all a very ordinary sort of person, quite a commonplace man."

I could get hold of nothing but of some commonplace phrases, those futile phrases that give the measure of our impotence before each other's trials.

Finally he began to mutter some commonplaces which meant nothing particularly.

And something angered Tamara in the way the Prince assisted in all this, out-commonplacing her friend in commonplaces with the suavest politeness.

The smallest commonplace of domestic life, so amiable to the healthy mind, lacerates like a blade.

Collecting data via transects is a commonplace in biology[.]

Whatever, in my reading, occurs concerning this our fellow creature, I do never fail to set it down by way of common-place.

I do not apprehend any difficulty in collecting and commonplacing an universal history from the […]historians.

c. January 1620, Francis Bacon, letter to the King
For the good that comes of particular and select committees and commissions, I need not commonplace.

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