How to Use common in a Sentence

common

1 of 2 adjective

• The people on the island have a sense of common identity.
• I think some of the most common flowers are also some of the prettiest.
• Electric windows are a common feature in new cars.
• It is common practice for one town's fire department to help another town when there is a big fire.
• They have a common ancestor.
• Our common thread is to be a band.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2026
• And this is common, by the way.
  — David Remnick, New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2026
• What do those things have in common?
  — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 23 Jan. 2026
• The play was deemed to be a common foul.
  — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 28 Feb. 2026
• That seems to be a common theme.
  — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 26 Apr. 2026
• So, what do their charts have in common?
  — Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 13 Feb. 2026
• This tells you what the words have in common.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026
• That’s the common theme here, in fact.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 2026
• Here’s how to avoid the most common tax traps.
  — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
• But there are lots of issues that are not common.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 6 Feb. 2026
• But the one common thread with all these deos?
  — Sarah Kinonen, Allure, 27 Feb. 2026
• Bundibugyo is one of the less common types.
  — Erika Edwards, NBC news, 18 May 2026
• Credit card fraud was the most common crime.
  — Metro Creative Services, Boston Herald, 18 May 2026
• What do speedos and stilettos have in common?
  — Ari Stark, Footwear News, 18 May 2026
• Is this a common finding in dogs?
  — Dr. John De Jong, Boston Herald, 10 May 2026
• From the start, it was steeped in a common vision.
  — Kansas City Star, 26 Apr. 2026
• There are common issues that the unions share.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 6 Feb. 2026
• So that belief is much more common.
  — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
• What do these leaders have in common?
  — Hosffman Ospino, The Conversation, 13 Mar. 2026
• Out of the self-care chores, reading was the most common one.
  — Hannah Nwoko, Parents, 7 Feb. 2026
• These players have one thing in common.
  — New Atlas, 24 May 2026
• This effect was more common among male teenagers and younger adults.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2026
• What do squash, fishing and surgery have in common?
  — Kathleen Hill, The Providence Journal, 7 Feb. 2026
• In recent years, those trips have been less common.
  — Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2026
• Jitters such as these are rather common.
  — Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 1 Sep. 2025

common

2 of 2 noun

• The campus has several dining commons.
• The nine learning studios are off to the sides of the commons.
  — Richard Requena, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
• MacFeely has come to think of the issue as a tragedy of the commons.
  — Jeneen Interlandi, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
• What does the Bitcoin craze have in common with dot-coms and tulips?
  — David Rovella, Bloomberg.com, 17 Jan. 2018
• Her research proved that the tragedy of the commons is not inevitable.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 12 June 2019
• Leighton wasn't in the commons area of the school when the shooting happened.
  — Darcy Costello, The Courier-Journal, 14 Mar. 2018
• That night, 13 fireworks were fired off from the city's commons.
  — Caroline Simon, USA TODAY, 3 July 2018
• In the commons area, there are spirit window boxes for each class.
  — Yadi Rodriguez, cleveland.com, 20 Oct. 2017
• The school’s center will also have a large commons area where students will eat lunch.
  — Meredith Colias-Pete, Post-Tribune, 13 July 2018
• But less than half of city residents met that goal—the tragedy of the commons, in action.
  — Aryn Baker, TIME.com, 8 Feb. 2018
• Breakout spaces off the school's commons have also been framed in.
  — Alec Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 July 2019
• The cost is foisted off on the commons, in the form of a parking spot occupied all day.
  — Rodney Brooks, IEEE Spectrum, 27 July 2017
• This would be a tragedy of the commons and for the Constitution.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 Apr. 2018
• Lee and Momeni had friends in common but were not close, Dalton said.
  — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2023
• Even politicians who have little in common seemed to unite in their misgivings about the league.
  — Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2021
• In addition, there will be 17 student desks set up in the commons area.
  — Trisha Powell Crain, AL.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• But building around the commons contains a trade-off, Ostrom’s work found.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Jan. 2026
• Wind was strong enough to take down tree branch multiple feet in diameter on the common.
  — Talia Lissauer, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2023
• In that situation exists a true commons where one person’s use means less left for the rest.
  — Gail Cornwall, The Atlantic, 4 May 2017
• To walk is to encounter difference, to share the commons, to witness the city’s inequities up close.
  — Fahad Zuberi, Time, 5 Nov. 2025
• The question of what, if anything, these accidents have in common has become front-of-mind.
  — Bloomberg.com, 22 Aug. 2017
• Averting a 'tragedy of the commons' Low Mackey says that’s not the goal anyway.
  — National Geographic, 16 Jan. 2020
• More accurate were the settlers themselves, who deplored this painful tragedy of their commons.
  — Amity Shlaes, National Review, 10 Jan. 2024
• My friend and his wife live on the edge of a park, not a former common but land that was levelled by German bombing.
  — Eula Biss, The New Yorker, 8 June 2022
• What some of these parasomnias have in common is an overlapping, or a mismatch, of dream and waking states.
  — Linda Rodriguez McRobbie, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2018
• If possible, book one of the 1930s-era rooms clustered around a grass commons.
  — Guy Trebay, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Oct. 2018
• The building will have more private office space, a large commons area for studying and hanging out, and a new main entrance.
  — Andrea K. McDaniels, baltimoresun.com, 21 July 2017
• The only place where the devices are allowed are the cafeteria and commons — even then, only if class isn’t in session.
  — oregonlive, 14 Sep. 2019
• Some of them think the world should formally establish the Arctic Ocean as a commons.
  — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 23 July 2019
• The learning commons on the Des Plaines campus has been nine years in the making, Jeremiah said.
  — Elizabeth Owens-Schiele, Chicago Tribune, 22 Jan. 2026