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!
• Of course, use common sense -- wear masks when going to the restroom in rest stops.
  — Katia Hetter, CNN, 12 Aug. 2021
• Some of this is common sense, such as avoiding caffeine, alcohol and nicotine before bed.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2021
• The most important advice from the EPA: Use common sense.
  — Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 July 2021
• Cate said the climate plan was consistent with Faulconer’s common sense conservatism.
  — Deborah Sullivan Brennan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2021
• Rather than using common sense, Huntington twisted the spirit and letter of the law and abused the power of his office.
  — Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 July 2021
• But common sense, investment theory, and the evidence suggest that this is unlikely to be the case.
  — Stephen R. Soukup, National Review, 12 July 2021
• His speech was certainly a masterpiece of demagoguery masquerading as common sense.
  — Robert H. Bork Jr., WSJ, 12 July 2021
• But, Serrott for now re-ordered new hearings on the case for procedural reasons while urging the two sides to come to a common sense solution.
  — Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland, 16 July 2021
• While trying to increase your financial status separately from whatever is contested could help you, make sure your desire for revenge doesn’t cloud your common sense.
  — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 17 July 2021
• Their goal is to ensure historical buildings and neighborhoods are preserved while also coming up with common sense improvements to the city's historic zoning process.
  — Nate Rau, Axios, 16 Oct. 2024
• In the end, my support of folks different than me is just simply called patriotism, common sense, and a reluctance to buy into hysteria and sensationalism.
  — Kevin Dayhoff, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 16 July 2021
• But common sense also dictates that the degree of child-resistance should scale according to the actual risk posed by a particular marijuana product.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2021
• Get the facts and figures and choose to use common sense.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 1 Feb. 2024
• One of the best weapons against jet lag is common sense.
  — Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2021
• And in the court of common sense, all roads lead to Adam Fravel.
  — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2024
• The lack of an AD and the absence of common sense from the Big Sky offices.
  — John Canzano, oregonlive, 27 Jan. 2022
• So far, so good — in fact, a rare win for common sense.
  — Elizabeth Bauer, Forbes, 30 Jan. 2022
• Our ideals need to be tempered by a dose of common sense.
  — Mark Edmundson, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022
• Then, Zverev seemed to lose his mind, or at least his common sense.
  — Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2021
• 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
• The adult ought to have more common sense than to tell a teen to do this perilous antic.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
• No one with a pound of common sense suggested the Big Ten was down this year.
  — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Jan. 2023
• The Natural Resources Defense Council said the new standards are modest but vital, and the court’s decision to leave them in place is a win for common sense.
  — L'oreal Thompson Payton, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024