How to Use garden-variety in a Sentence

garden-variety

adjective
  • But Tatum is more than just your garden-variety charmer.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
  • This will not be your garden-variety sports labor dispute.
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Childhood Neil has an imaginary friend to cope with the garden-variety angst.
    — Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 June 2025
  • Underneath, a few key upgrades set it apart from the garden-variety wagon.
    — Byron Hurd, The Drive, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Robert Redford was not your garden-variety celebrity.
    — Peter Biskind, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Not everything Richards played was your garden-variety, risk-averse sideways pass.
    — Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 13 June 2026
  • But he’s not motivated by garden-variety vengeance.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Faced with garden-variety brutal minutes rather than some of the toughest on record, Seider took a major step forward.
    — The Athletic Nhl, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Sure, there are your garden-variety influencers with their performative prossecco and rental resortwear, but these guests don’t announce their net worth—because their wears do it for them.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Feb. 2026
  • But peppered in between the back-and-forth comments with garden-variety Internet trolls are criticisms of his onetime colleagues.
    — Gregory Royal Pratt, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2026
  • And yet, with this much interesting talent packed into one team, Chad Powers doesn’t quite sink to the level of a garden-variety disaster.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025
  • For Farouk, revenge is worth more than money, which would seem more compelling a motive if the show weren’t intent on turning him into a garden-variety bloodthirsty terrorist than a villain with a point.
    — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Teddy’s reasoning is a confusion of save-the-world alarmism, garden-variety derangement, unhealed trauma, and single-minded revenge.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Its capabilities and autonomy present a potent enterprise threat vector beyond the realm of garden-variety security concerns.
    — Pieter Danhieux, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Some point to the usual suspects — the Illuminati, Bohemian Grove, garden-variety Satanists.
    — Lane Brown, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2025
  • In a career spanning six decades, Weir was key to developing the Grateful Dead from garden-variety psychedelic rockers as the Warlocks to godfathers of the jam band genre.
    — Morgan Enos, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
  • In a career spanning six decades, Weir was key to developing the Grateful Dead from garden-variety psychedelic rockers as the Warlocks to godfathers of the jam band genre.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 15 Jan. 2026
  • All of which might be dismissed as garden-variety conspiracy, not to mention being beyond the organizational capacity of the Democratic Party.
    — Chris Smith, Vanity Fair, 17 Mar. 2026
  • There are generic, garden-variety villains like Mole Man (Paul Walter Hauser), who the Four easily defeat while being the darlings of their community and the world.
    — Ken Makin, Christian Science Monitor, 25 July 2025

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