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!
• So far, so good — in fact, a rare win for common sense.
  — Elizabeth Bauer, Forbes, 30 Jan. 2022
• Awareness of your surroundings and common sense will help.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Feb. 2022
• For everyone else, please show common sense and compassion.
  — Tim Gray, Variety, 18 Feb. 2022
• But Molière reaches out across the centuries to remind us that common sense has legs as long as laughter itself.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2022
• Take your time, observe what’s unfolding around you and question anything that doesn’t appear fair or lacks common sense.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 16 July 2024
• Steve Breyer has been a superlative justice, whose work has shown his high intelligence and sound common sense.
  — Ellen Uchimiya, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2022
• When in doubt, though, applying some common sense will probably be enough to earn you everyone's gratitude.
  — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 19 Feb. 2022
• In those instances, the prosecution is really asking the juries to rely on their common sense.
  — Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 1 Aug. 2024
• His most persistent critics label him an over-manager who chases platoon advantages at the expense of common sense.
  — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 9 Aug. 2024
• Overall, Paul explained, some editors still insisted that common sense was more important than a stylebook.
  — WSJ, 1 Feb. 2022
• Inevitably, common sense says (if it is allowed to speak), such derelictions lead to crime that goes unpunished — and a lot more of it, destroying communities and lives.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 5 Feb. 2022
• Whether led by great hubris or sweet naivete, Treadwell ignored all common sense and conventional wisdom about the animals and began to consider them as friends.
  — Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2024
• In these unsettling times when common sense, common decency and common courtesy is anything but common, perhaps a brief refresher on beach etiquette would be well advised?
  — Steve Cambria, Hartford Courant, 4 Aug. 2024
• University officials slander their own tenured professors for expressing ideas most Americans call common sense.
  — Myles McKnight, National Review, 13 Feb. 2022
• 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

Last Updated: 4 Oct 2024