How to Use common sense in a Sentence

common sense

noun

• She's very smart but she doesn't have a lot of common sense.
• Obey the laws and use common sense when operating your boat.
• You really should go to see a doctor if your leg hurts that much. It's just common sense!
• Then, Zverev seemed to lose his mind, or at least his common sense.
  — Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2021
• Come on, the lament goes, show some compassion and common sense.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021
• Here and there, however, there are signs that some common sense may be beginning to break through.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 17 Oct. 2021
• Feng shui provides some practical ideas along with common sense to declutter and enhance your home.
  — Jean Chen Smith, The Enquirer, 24 Oct. 2021
• That’s common sense and the notion behind for-profit entities.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
• Discover the needs and develop common sense solutions to meet those needs.
  — Jonathan Horwitz, Orange County Register, 4 Oct. 2024
• That does not strike me as right, either as a matter of the Constitution or as a matter of good, common sense.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 14 Oct. 2021
• While all the concepts are straightforward and, in some ways, common sense, in an uncertain environment even the best teams can get messages mixed up.
  — Andrés De Jongh, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2021
• Powell, blessed with more intelligence and common sense than ego, was too smart to get involved in the snake pit of presidential politics.
  — J.d. Crowe | [e-mail], al, 19 Oct. 2021
• And though common sense would dictate that the slowest contestants be eliminated first to maximize their chances of making the deadline, that’s not how things play out.
  — Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 29 Sep. 2024
• There are a lot of parental lessons buried within this story, these object lessons of how to navigate unusual circumstances by using common sense and that ever abiding sense of a quality of love.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 10 Oct. 2021
• PoolGetty Images When naming your kids, thinking about all the obvious ways their names could be twisted into playground taunts is just common sense.
  — Iris Goldsztajn, Marie Claire, 25 Oct. 2021
• Get the facts and figures and choose to use common sense.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 1 Feb. 2024
• And in the court of common sense, all roads lead to Adam Fravel.
  — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2024
• The lack of an AD and the absence of common sense from the Big Sky offices.
  — John Canzano, oregonlive, 27 Jan. 2022
• So far, so good — in fact, a rare win for common sense.
  — Elizabeth Bauer, Forbes, 30 Jan. 2022
• Our ideals need to be tempered by a dose of common sense.
  — Mark Edmundson, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022
• The date was from three years before, the subject line: common sense.
  — Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 12 Feb. 2024
• The tax rules seemed to defy both common sense and what the EPA was saying.
  — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 3 Feb. 2023
• The time is now, before the 2023 tax season starts, for the IRS to show some common sense and get this done.
  — Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2022
• The core message of your book seems to be an appeal to common sense.
  — Will Stone, NPR, 14 June 2024
• Justin bib tried to bring common sense to a tax abatement program in the city.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 18 May 2022
• The adult ought to have more common sense than to tell a teen to do this perilous antic.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
• No one with a pound of common sense suggested the Big Ten was down this year.
  — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Jan. 2023
• But common sense goes out the window when politicians play the blame game.
  — Andy Puzder, WSJ, 9 Jan. 2022
• And the answer, from a common sense perspective, seemed to be yes.
  — Marianne Mather, Chicago Tribune, 1 Dec. 2022
• That is common sense, but already the holes in the safety net are growing wider.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2022

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024