run-of-the-mill
adjective
Examples of run-of-the-mill in a Sentence
just another run-of-the-mill suburb with its shopping malls and fast-food restaurants
his latest offering is rather run-of-the-mill for this usually excellent novelist
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Movie sets, although perhaps more glamorous than offices, factories, or any other run-of-the-mill workplaces, are governed by the same employment laws and must provide the same employee protections as any other workplace.
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Legal Entertainment, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
Most run-of-the-mill thong-style sandals come with flimsy, thin soles, and rock-hard plastic toe separators, leaving problem-prone feet sore, raw, and in way worse shape than before.
—Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 1 June 2025
But that ideal future can’t happen if the forces guiding it have such narrow vision as to schedule random, run-of-the-mill league fixtures against their sport’s version of Super Bowl Sunday.
—Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
His website advertised expertise in defending run-of-the-mill cases: DUI, domestic violence, theft, assault.
—Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2025
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Legal Entertainment, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
Most run-of-the-mill thong-style sandals come with flimsy, thin soles, and rock-hard plastic toe separators, leaving problem-prone feet sore, raw, and in way worse shape than before.
—Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 1 June 2025
But that ideal future can’t happen if the forces guiding it have such narrow vision as to schedule random, run-of-the-mill league fixtures against their sport’s version of Super Bowl Sunday.
—Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
His website advertised expertise in defending run-of-the-mill cases: DUI, domestic violence, theft, assault.
—Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for run-of-the-mill
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“Run-of-the-mill.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/run-of-the-mill. Accessed 28 Jun. 2025.
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