How to Use common in a Sentence

common

1 of 2 adjective

• The people on the island have a sense of common identity.
• I think some of the most common flowers are also some of the prettiest.
• Electric windows are a common feature in new cars.
• It is common practice for one town's fire department to help another town when there is a big fire.
• They have a common ancestor.
• Great whites used to be common off the Cape of Good Hope.
  — The Economist, 24 Feb. 2021
• So the Help Desk put these new AI tools to the test with common work tasks.
  — Danielle Abril, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2024
• The most common cause of sticky keys is the buildup of dust, dirt and debris over time.
  — Ken Colburn, The Arizona Republic, 16 July 2023
• The mushiness that’s common in canned beans is nowhere to be found.
  — Alex Delany, Bon Appetit, 23 Oct. 2017
• The water was low, and very clear, which was common for that time of year.
  — Sarah Bowman, IndyStar, 19 Dec. 2019
• Here are the answers to some common questions about the new school year.
  — Jill Tucker, SFChronicle.com, 12 Aug. 2020
• The splitter is common in Japan, but rare here in the majors.
  — Si.com Staff, SI.com, 9 Apr. 2018
• Hoaxes — and of course there are some — don’t seem to be common.
  — NBC News, 3 Jan. 2018
• Play store for apps, by far the most common way to get Android apps.
  — Sam Schechner, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2020
• There are other lease terms, but these are the most common.
  — Houston Chronicle, 29 June 2018
• Most tell me it’s quite common for men to come in and try women’s things on.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 12 Aug. 2021
• Cedar and pine boughs are common enough in many places, but fir boughs make the softest bed.
  — Popular Science, 28 May 2020
• His common refrain: More than three decades as the king was long enough.
  — Paul Newberry, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Jan. 2021
• The one thing all had in common was their dedication to the city.
  — Carrie Napoleon, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2022
• One of the most common problems is a skin rash that can vary from mild to severe.
  — Doru Paul, Verywell Health, 13 May 2023
• The Great tries to find something in common with her mother.
  — Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2021
• What are the most common issues that might lead to cheating?
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2024
• Grayes has a lot in common with the players mentioned above.
  — Stephen Means, cleveland, 29 Mar. 2022
• What do pink tulips and pink highlighter have in common?
  — Allure, 1 Apr. 2022
• What do light globes, used tuna cans, and eye hooks have in common?
  — Marlisse Cepeda, Country Living, 8 Nov. 2018
• Caves says looking to the stars for guidance is common among many faiths.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2022
• Here are some of the most common and popular medicines from plants and what they are used for.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 15 July 2023
• Chigger bites are one of the most common bug bites during the summer and fall months.
  — Maggie O'Neill, Health, 1 Feb. 2024
• More than 6 million Americans, and millions more worldwide, have Alzheimer’s disease, the most common cause of dementia.
  — Tom Murphy, Quartz, 12 Apr. 2024
• The making of a movement The motivation to reach lawmakers is common among families who say their children’s lives were lost due to social media.
  — Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN, 13 Apr. 2024

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common

2 of 2 noun

• The campus has several dining commons.
• MacFeely has come to think of the issue as a tragedy of the commons.
  — Jeneen Interlandi, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
• The nine learning studios are off to the sides of the commons.
  — Richard Requena, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
• Leighton wasn't in the commons area of the school when the shooting happened.
  — Darcy Costello, The Courier-Journal, 14 Mar. 2018
• Her research proved that the tragedy of the commons is not inevitable.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 12 June 2019
• What does the Bitcoin craze have in common with dot-coms and tulips?
  — David Rovella, Bloomberg.com, 17 Jan. 2018
• This would be a tragedy of the commons and for the Constitution.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 Apr. 2018
• That night, 13 fireworks were fired off from the city's commons.
  — Caroline Simon, USA TODAY, 3 July 2018
• He aimed at the sophomores who clustered in the same part of the commons each morning, Kaden said.
  — Justin Sayers, The Courier-Journal, 8 Feb. 2018
• That wide range of styles has one theme in common, however: the 1980s.
  — Elizabeth Wellington, Philly.com, 1 Sep. 2017
• There are many reasons for the slow erosion of this commons.
  — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 31 May 2018
• What all these ideas have in common: Making the most of extra years.
  — Chris Taylor, Fortune, 13 Dec. 2017
• Averting a 'tragedy of the commons' Low Mackey says that’s not the goal anyway.
  — National Geographic, 16 Jan. 2020
• But less than half of city residents met that goal—the tragedy of the commons, in action.
  — Aryn Baker, TIME.com, 8 Feb. 2018
• Lee and Momeni had friends in common but were not close, Dalton said.
  — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2023
• In addition, there will be 17 student desks set up in the commons area.
  — Trisha Powell Crain, AL.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• If possible, book one of the 1930s-era rooms clustered around a grass commons.
  — Guy Trebay, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Oct. 2018
• In the commons area, there are spirit window boxes for each class.
  — Yadi Rodriguez, cleveland.com, 20 Oct. 2017
• The school’s center will also have a large commons area where students will eat lunch.
  — Meredith Colias-Pete, Post-Tribune, 13 July 2018
• The centerpiece of the $48 million school is the learning commons — the new media center.
  — Kathleen McWilliams, Courant Community, 3 May 2018
• But there's one thing all these all have in common: Buying them in brine will make a world of difference.
  — Julia Black, Bon Appetit, 29 Aug. 2017
• Breakout spaces off the school's commons have also been framed in.
  — Alec Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 July 2019
• Even politicians who have little in common seemed to unite in their misgivings about the league.
  — Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2021
• My friend and his wife live on the edge of a park, not a former common but land that was levelled by German bombing.
  — Eula Biss, The New Yorker, 8 June 2022
• But those grievances have one thing in common: fear that too much power is in the hands of too few companies.
  — New York Times, 8 Sep. 2019
• Some of them think the world should formally establish the Arctic Ocean as a commons.
  — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 23 July 2019
• The play and the website share a lot in common: Everyone is very angry and sick and everyone is horny on main.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 30 June 2018
• The smell of fried food hovered across the common from the food truck area, and artisans sold their products from tents in the Halloween Marketplace.
  — Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2022
• More accurate were the settlers themselves, who deplored this painful tragedy of their commons.
  — Amity Shlaes, National Review, 10 Jan. 2024
• In some places, water managers actively refill groundwater to ameliorate this tragedy of the commons.
  — Erica Gies, Scientific American, 25 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024