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!
• Nix has to flirt with danger while remaining full of common sense.
  — Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 6 Nov. 2024
• Mastella said their training was based on common sense.
  — Washington Post, 10 June 2021
• Which brings us back to college football expansion and common sense.
  — Terence Moore, Forbes, 17 June 2021
• This is simple common sense, as even Congress itself agrees.
  — Demian Brady, National Review, 5 June 2021
• Uniting citizens of all backgrounds around a common core of common sense.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2024
• The wisdom to weigh that history and know what things represent wisdom, common sense and the good for all humankind.
  — Ryce Stoughtenborough, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 June 2021
• Their data encodes their society’s knowledge and culture and common sense.
  — Zeyi Yang, WIRED, 3 Dec. 2024
• Ultimately, spoiling your pet during the holidays comes down to common sense.
  — Dr. Devon B. Smith, Baltimore Sun, 21 Nov. 2024
• Yet Cyc has not led to artificial intelligence with common sense.
  — Rob Toews, Forbes, 1 June 2021
• Policing should be done with common sense, compassion, courage and high professionalism.
  — Ryce Stoughtenborough, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 June 2021
• Andrew Yang also describes himself as an advocate of common sense in policing.
  — Mene Ukueberuwa, WSJ, 4 June 2021
• For one, the idea that markets cheer the very intervention meant to muzzle the reality of markets defies basic common sense.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 13 June 2021
• Stiff opposition, unlikely projections and common sense say no.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2021
• That training led a relatively small language model to outperform others on common sense reasoning tasks.
  — Khari Johnson, Wired, 17 June 2021
• While the technology marches forward, human common sense—embedded in our brains, shaped by bodies and honed through experience—remains far out of reach.
  — Peter Andersen, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
• Get the facts and figures and choose to use common sense.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 1 Feb. 2024
• One of the best weapons against jet lag is common sense.
  — Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2021
• 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
• Because quite frankly, most of the things in that bill are common sense.
  — NBC News, 20 June 2021
• Our ideals need to be tempered by a dose of common sense.
  — Mark Edmundson, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022
• Then, Zverev seemed to lose his mind, or at least his common sense.
  — Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2021
• 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

Last Updated: 27 Dec 2024