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"Typical" in a Sentence (16 examples)
It is often pointed out that a vague smile is typical of the Japanese.
Uh-oh, here comes another lecture. How typical. This guy has something to say about everything.
But it's a typical savannah country, and we enjoy cooler temperatures.
Such words are so typical for him.
It is typical of him to say such a thing.
It is a typical Gothic church.
The phenomenon is typical of our modern era.
The idea is typical of him.
That way of talking is typical of him.
The typical middle-class American baby comes home from the hospital to sleep in his own bed in his own room.
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Compare this with, for instance, the heights of adult humans. They certainly lie within half an order of magnitude from a mean of about 1.7 m, being within the interval 5.4–0.54 m (18–1.8 ft). It is obvious from our three examples—the height of a person, household income in the United States, and the area of EU countries—that the concept of what is typical or characteristic depends on the case one refers to. Nevertheless, even vague measures can have a useful meaning in a comparison with something that is very different. For instance, the area of EU countries is typically much larger than the area of the city of New York, although Malta is actually smaller.
Also perpetual is the practice of extending greetings and best wishes for a happy and prosperous New Year. The most typical traditional greeting is gong xi fa cai (for prosperity). And it certainly has been the most appropriate one since China in late 1978 denounced the political upheaval of the "cultural revolution" (1966-76) and launched its large-scale reform and development programmes.
One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually.
Celticecis species are definitely known only from the typical subgenus of Celtis, distributed through much of the Holarctic Region.
Antipsychotic drugs can be divided into typicals and atypicals.
Among the moths, typicals were more common than melanics.
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