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How to use common sense in a sentence

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Howard blustered about mad officials meddling in people's lives and undermining plain common sense and individual responsibility.
Whatever causality is, causal relations should be inferrable in everyday common sense settings.
Those dualisms are still deeply ingrained in common sense, which is why pragmatism is so counterintuitive.
Basic sleep hygiene rules are really common sense when you think about them.
He relies upon personal interest to accomplish his ends and gives free scope to the unguided strength and common sense of the people.
Denise has little concept of humility, and allows her quick temper to interfere with her common sense.
It is hard to think of a local scene without a locus, to have a sense of community without a common sense of place.
The attempt to put a positive spin on negative statistics is an insult to common sense which gives politicians a bad name.
Why do the natural rules of trust, common sense and due diligence for some reason not seem to apply online?
The author offers blend of psychoanalytic research, quick-and-dirty philosophy, and common sense.
The naughty step reinforces a boundary, but you need common sense as to where you draw it and it needs to change.
This Winter's confused disorderly commercialism comes at the expense of taste, style and common sense.
They forge a relationship based on their common sense of helplessness in the face of the overwhelming power of fate.
This is common sense really, but I have no doubt that the chances of it being adopted are negligible due to cost.
If these people play fair and use discretion and common sense, they shall have my full support.
The briar pipe continued to epitomise solid, dependable, common sense masculinity.
This seems to fly in the face of common sense, as Channel 4 newsreader Jon Snow observed in his interview with us.
Her advice was freely given and was always based on common sense and sound reasoning.
The complete article shows quite clearly how the reporter resented being treated as if she had no discernment nor common sense.
Except for this violation of safety and common sense, Oliver had a spotless record.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He spoke to the sound common sense and the regnant conscience of the masses.
But you, my dear Olivia, will not be deaf to the warning voice of common sense.
The book is for those whose common sense is unwarped, who can judge evidence as well as the ablest philosopher.
You have all the qualities, common sense, practicability, everything he hasn't got.
We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.
Then why, in the name of common sense, did you gaze so earnestly at the furbelow lady herself?
A Briton of the Billingsgate type would have appealed to jackeroo as a man of sound common sense.
As you refuse to hearken to the voice of common sense, and afflict yourself with a megrim, I leave you to your fate.
That is a most excellent reason, but I shouldn't let it overweigh common sense.
It is to require the story-teller and the playmaker to prove a thesis that common sense must reject.
The whole question seems to me to lie in the proverbial nutshell, and to be solvable by the proverbial common sense.
To reason thus is to put subtlety into the cathedra of common sense, to bewilder vision by legerdemain.
They profane our civilization, and are an indecent assault upon common sense.
Except your mother, who has no will of her own, have any of them common sense?
I felt the inexpugnable strength of common sense being insidiously menaced by this gruesome, by this insane, delusion.
His art is less for every deduction from his holiness, and less for every defect of common sense.
She was a person of strong common sense, and this mixture of religion and eroticism disgusted her.
Well, if we were talking science instead of common sense, we should call that an experimental Verification.
Fictions or realities, could they survive the touchstone of this atom of common sense?
Gaydon has a great deal of observation and common sense, and was never plagued with a flim-flam of fancies.
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