Below you will find example sentences with "common sense". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Common Sense in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: common
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 15
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 25 words

Words in this phrase

common sense

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • common can mean: Mutual; shared by more than one. Common word
  • sense can mean: Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste. Common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 9 start, 6 middle, 5 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

above is common sense if we 1× and no common sense 1× as a common sense district 1× believe and common sense suggests that 1× bought some common sense with that 1× brains sense common sense and a 1× common sense and common 1× common sense is not 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

although these groups 1× ayer responded to 1× common sense and 1× common sense the 1× do political flunkies 1× if the method 1×

Common sentence endings:

a common tradition 1× and common sense 1× beautiful mother zambia 1× common sense 1969 1× common sense district 1× grip on reality 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

national 3× decency 3× conservatives 2× helping 2× believe 2× trying 2× sports 2× people 2× transition 2× ground 2× cry 1× heard 1×

Related phrases

common share common law common assault common shares common stock makes sense common prayer common era

Phrases around this combination

Just before it in the phrase index:

common prayer common law common era common assault committee members committee meets

Just after it in the phrase index:

common share common shares common stock commonly associated commonly known commonly referred

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

common share common law common assault common shares common stock common prayer

Same ending:

makes sense

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "common sense" has 2 words and usually appears near the start in these examples. The average sentence has 25 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as above is common sense if we, and no common sense, national, decency and conservatives stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with common share, common law and common assault, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with common sense

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

Common sense is not common. (5 words)

Common sense and common ground was driven from the public debate. (11 words)

Do political flunkies have no sense of historty and no common sense? (12 words)

Longer example sentences

We happen to believe, and common sense suggests that trying to have 50 different sets of rules to run a national system doesn’t make a lot of sense, so trying to do that on a national scale is the only way to have successful sports,” Emmert said to ABC. (50 words)

When helping Trump spread the birtherism lie about Barack Obama, he could hardly restrain himself: "That is what it feels like to lose control of your mind—you actually give up your common sense, sense of decency, sensitivity, even your grip on reality…. (43 words)

He also said that people with brains, sense, common sense and a basic knowledge of sports will realize that he has taken over a club that is in transition, and that this is just year two of that transition. (39 words)

Question examples

Do political flunkies have no sense of historty and no common sense? (12 words)

Example sentences (20)

The cry heard most often from conservatives is one demanding a return to “common sense,” but what many fail to understand is that common sense requires a common tradition.

Common Sense, the national nonprofit organization dedicated to helping kids and families thrive in a world of media and technology, has recognized Floyd County Schools as a Common Sense District.

If that is common sense then Hon. fahie you should have bought some common sense with that money.

If the method of common sense is correct, then philosophers may take the principles of common sense for granted.

This isn't an admission of weakness - it's common sense and one aquires a sense of pride upon completion.

Never one to let common sense or any sense of responsibility impede his princely progress, Newsom issued a new demand on the 15th of August, aimed once again at those villainous and unholy oil industry profits.

Do political flunkies have no sense of historty and no common sense?

When helping Trump spread the birtherism lie about Barack Obama, he could hardly restrain himself: "That is what it feels like to lose control of your mind—you actually give up your common sense, sense of decency, sensitivity, even your grip on reality….

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We happen to believe, and common sense suggests that trying to have 50 different sets of rules to run a national system doesn’t make a lot of sense, so trying to do that on a national scale is the only way to have successful sports,” Emmert said to ABC.

He also said that people with brains, sense, common sense and a basic knowledge of sports will realize that he has taken over a club that is in transition, and that this is just year two of that transition.

Although these groups are unitarians in the common sense, they are not in the proper sense.

Ayer responded to this in the essay "Has Austin Refuted the Sense-data Theory?", which can be found in his Metaphysics and Common Sense (1969).

He has been the most helpful of the professors and his sense of humour and common sense has saved the day on many occasions.

Labour’s Yvette Cooper had earlier called the Bill a “con”, with the shadow home secretary accusing Conservatives of giving up on “common decency and common sense”.

They replaced an absolute monarch who had very limited power, with a people’s republic restrained neither by common sense nor common decency.

Pivoting to her promise to Americans, she was pledged "to seek common ground and common sense solutions to make your lives better.

Common sense is not common.

Much of the above is common sense if we are given the opportunity to reflect on our common experiences.

Common sense and common ground was driven from the public debate.

Tabalanda Sana boi I believe common sense is not common but hey you do not need a microscope for you to see how bad things are in this our beautiful mother Zambia.

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