How to Use ordinarily in a Sentence

ordinarily

adverb
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  • Trips the team might ordinarily be able to tag along on are fully booked.
    — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2023
  • A lot of people who would ordinarily be here aren’t able to be here.
    — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 12 Sep. 2023
  • During the winter, crews across the west struggled to keep up with the work, and many roads that are ordinarily open in the winter were closed for hours, if not days.
    — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 11 May 2023
  • Atoms are ordinarily in what’s called the ground state, in which all the electrons orbit the nucleus in a stable way.
    — Quanta Magazine, 4 Sep. 2024
  • That's plenty of length, but the width is the same as a twin bed, ordinarily reserved for solo sleepers.
    — New Atlas, 18 Sep. 2024
  • The buyer ordinarily wouldn’t have a claim against the seller.
    — Joshua Stein, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • While that would ordinarily be a concern, the Rams offense has struggled to move the ball this season.
    — Ian Firstenberg, Chicago Tribune, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Pubs and restaurants that ordinarily don't have a TV got one for the funeral.
    — Kevin Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Sep. 2022
  • The trip, from one end to the other, would ordinarily take around 30 minutes or so in a car, or slightly longer on public transit.
    — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 9 June 2024
  • However, the new car will not have a storage area up front where the engine would ordinarily reside.
    — Brett Berk, Robb Report, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Only the fifth task is what is ordinarily thought of as the primary one: to transport people into the dark, hostile deep.
    — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 1 July 2023
  • For those of us that ordinarily can't nail a homemade cocktail (read: me), this system will take the guesswork out of your preparations.
    — Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping, 9 Jan. 2023
  • The chips use up produce scraps such as potato and beet skins that would ordinarily be discarded or headed for the compost pile.
    — Chris Morris, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Feb. 2023
  • The law was passed in Sept. 2022 and provides a three-year window for survivors to file a claim that would have ordinarily expired under the state's statute of limitations.
    — C Mandler, CBS News, 21 Dec. 2023
  • This ordinarily happens where NARA gets a facility in the town where the president has moved to.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 4 June 2023
  • This is a species that ordinarily migrates northward offshore at the edge of the continental shelf at this time of year, but the rain and strong southeast winds early in the week drove them shoreward.
    — Isabela Rocha, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2023
  • Of course, withdrawing wages whittles down the amount workers would ordinarily get when paid in full every two weeks.
    — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Both of those courts would ordinarily take months or longer to review a criminal appeal.
    — Ian Millhiser, Vox, 5 June 2024
  • This ordinarily done by spreading the over a cookie sheet placed in a 200 degree oven for several hours until dry.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Pilot whales — technically a kind of large dolphin — ordinarily move in groups of up to about 50.
    — Natasha Frost, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Such a wild smashing scene would ordinarily be saved for a climax, but here it is presented to give impetus to the whole unfoldment.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2023
  • An eclectic crowd of singers, rappers, actors, and more all gathered, prompting a slew of meet-cutes between A-listers who ordinarily wouldn't cross paths.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 4 Feb. 2024
  • In such a prey on words, rare, medium, and well done are double entendres, so that six meanings are packed into the space ordinarily occupied by just three.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2023
  • But Warhol as a voyeur is not ordinarily our friendly neighborhood voyeur.
    — Stephen Birmingham, Town & Country, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Late to the party While most big names have ordinarily announced their hiring plans by this time of year, the majority have not yet done so, according to Challenger.
    — Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Construction, which ordinarily relies on Palestinian labor from the West Bank, has ground to a near-halt.
    — Itay Stern, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2023
  • Stephanie Shonekan is someone who ordinarily might be eyeing a top spot.
    — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Customers would ordinarily find their savory and sweet pies at weekend events.
    — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 9 Mar. 2023
  • So being a lawyer is a kind of an entry to intimacy that people don’t ordinarily engage in.
    — The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2023
  • We're taught to carefully look at evidence and things that many people wouldn't ordinarily do.
    — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 11 July 2024

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