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!
• Most importantly, consumers should use common sense, Kashou and Steskal said.
  — Zoe Jaeger, Journal Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2024
• Tobacco’s stubborn resistance to public-health common sense is an all-too-predictable story.
  — Jonathan Quick, TIME, 9 Aug. 2024
• 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
• 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
• No one with a pound of common sense suggested the Big Ten was down this year.
  — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Jan. 2023
• 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
• Guest opinion: The Supreme Court went out of its way to ignore common sense on bump stocks.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2024
• Plus, to him, the idea of expanding a coaching staff is just common sense.
  — New York Times, 6 Apr. 2022
• Yet sadly, the United States has betrayed the common sense of the common good.
  — Michael Kazin, The New Republic, 8 Sep. 2023
• Just follow the science — follow the logic and the common sense.
  — Nate Hochman, National Review, 26 Feb. 2022
• And there was a common sense of humor, which comes from the Jewish background.
  — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 11 July 2022
• Putting your phone in airplane mode when boarding a flight feels like common sense.
  — Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo, Quartz, 26 Feb. 2024
• But, when the Internet gets in a frenzy, common sense tends to go on a coffee break.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2023
• For all of its knowledge, the system also lacks common sense.
  — Will Oremus, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2022
• To make good on that statement, common sense must prevail.
  — New York Times, 1 Aug. 2022
• Anybody with any common sense knew SunRail was a pig in a poke the moment it was sold to the public 10 years ago.
  — Letters To The Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 8 July 2024
• In the halls of perspective and common sense, this is complete nonsense.
  — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Apr. 2023
• What’s perceived as common sense varies by time, place and culture.
  — F.d. Flam, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2024
• And so to see the Biden administration find common sense is a good thing.
  — CBS News, 8 Oct. 2023
• Most of them are common sense, like: Don’t drive and watch the eclipse at the same time, don’t drive with eclipse glasses on and avoid congested roads.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 2 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Sep 2024