typical - use in sentences

Preposition: of

  • bog: They are typical of western bogs within the drumlin belt of Northern Ireland, being elongated and very irregular in shape.
  • era: In early 19th century, romantic opera gave more dimension to the extreme emotions which were typical of that era.
  • habitat: The White-legged Damselfly is a rare British species but is typical of the habitat in the upper Adur area.
  • kind: These are typical of the kinds of changes found in the broader range of chronic epileptic foci.
  • period: The gravestone is long and somber, typical of the period.
  • type: Regulation 70 of Table A is typical of this type of provision.

Modifies a noun

  • example: Typical example of under exposed image showing limited tonal range.
  • symptom: Typical symptoms include loss of appetite, weight loss, a general feeling of poor health, jaundice, fever, fatigue and weakness.
  • scenario: A typical scenario is to receive a diskette from an innocent source that contains a boot disk virus.
  • Apr: The personal loans online service has a range of loans from 6.2 to 12.8 % with a typical APR of 7.5 % .
  • fashion: Some challenged them, saying in a typical British fashion: May I help you?
  • module: The coverage of the book embraces all of a typical first year maths module, making it ideal for core text adoption.

Modifying Another Word

  • fairly: The building is a fairly typical rural west Suffolk church.
  • pretty: All pages are different, but this strikes us as pretty typical of the many we have browsed.
  • absolutely: Summary: Same old, same old Review: My experience has been absolutely typical of everyone else's.
  • entirely: It was also entirely typical of his appetite to communicate and influence that for eight years he presented Scottish Television's This Wonderful World.
  • quite: In fact, it was quite typical for an adult.
  • so: I hope I was able to deliver a delightful and ever so typical sixteen year old's response.

Used with adjective complement

  • seem: To some, the Horse seems so typical of La Tène art that a Bronze Age dating de-stabilised some widely held cultural assumptions.
  • consider: A response rate of around 20 % is considered typical for a postal questionnaire ( Haralambos & Holborn 1990 ).

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