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!
• 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
• Because quite frankly, most of the things in that bill are common sense.
  — NBC News, 20 June 2021
• Our ideals need to be tempered by a dose of common sense.
  — Mark Edmundson, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022
• There’s right and there’s wrong, and there’s common sense and there’s abuse of power.
  — Natalie Stone, PEOPLE.com, 19 Jan. 2020
• There’s right and there’s wrong, and there’s common sense, and there’s abuse of power.
  — Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 20 Jan. 2020
• 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
• But there's a lot of problems that can be solved with common sense.
  — Gillian Telling, PEOPLE.com, 29 July 2020
• Justin bib tried to bring common sense to a tax abatement program in the city.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 18 May 2022
• Either have some common sense and wear a damn mask or pay a fine.
  — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2021
• But the truth is that the message the group is advancing is common sense.
  — New York Times, 19 Jan. 2021
• 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
• But maybe the lack of common sense displayed here has little to do with it.
  — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 12 June 2020
• But common sense goes out the window when politicians play the blame game.
  — Andy Puzder, WSJ, 9 Jan. 2022
• Of course, use common sense -- wear masks when going to the restroom in rest stops.
  — Katia Hetter, CNN, 12 Aug. 2021
• 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
• Some are boycotting their southern neighbor, but for others, avoiding it is just a matter of common sense.
  — Stephen Marche, The Atlantic, 1 July 2025
• Moreover, the Roland flag was larger, and common sense indicates that Driver would have presented his largest flag to be flown over the Capitol building in Nashville on that historic day in 1862.
  — Meredith Kile, People.com, 4 July 2025