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
• 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
• 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
• Yet sadly, the United States has betrayed the common sense of the common good.
  — Michael Kazin, The New Republic, 8 Sep. 2023
• And there was a common sense of humor, which comes from the Jewish background.
  — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 11 July 2022
• Putting your phone in airplane mode when boarding a flight feels like common sense.
  — Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo, Quartz, 26 Feb. 2024
• But, when the Internet gets in a frenzy, common sense tends to go on a coffee break.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2023
• For all of its knowledge, the system also lacks common sense.
  — Will Oremus, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2022
• To make good on that statement, common sense must prevail.
  — New York Times, 1 Aug. 2022
• In the halls of perspective and common sense, this is complete nonsense.
  — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Apr. 2023
• What’s perceived as common sense varies by time, place and culture.
  — F.d. Flam, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2024
• And so to see the Biden administration find common sense is a good thing.
  — CBS News, 8 Oct. 2023
• In the ad, the Air star questions his reasoning skills with Harlow as his common sense guide.
  — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 12 Feb. 2024
• All the stuff that is common sense, but often not common practice.
  — Fiona Ward, Glamour, 6 Feb. 2023
• Damage has been done to common sense, and Biden’s advisers are attuned to it.
  — Jeff Robbins, Orange County Register, 15 Feb. 2024
• With all that in mind, common sense dictates that the iPhone 14 release date is September 23rd.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 7 Aug. 2022
• Having common sense and the ability to think on your feet are key skills, Hurlbut said.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• This all might seem rather daunting, but my best advice is to simply use common sense.
  — Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 28 Aug. 2023
• Mord hopes that by sharing his story, anglers will reel in some common sense in the coming days.
  — Matt Henson, Twin Cities, 3 Jan. 2024
• Common purpose should lead to common projects, and common projects should lead us back to common sense.
  — Richard Harris, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2023
• Would to God that more of our leaders in public life had a fraction of her grace, her gravitas and, above all, her common sense.
  — Andrew Roberts, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2022
• His response was born of common sense and stating the obvious.
  — Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2022
• Animal Control also used the post to share some common sense advice to the public.
  — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024