common sense

How To Use common sense In A Sentence

• By Wells's own testimony, she had a quick Irish wit, high spirits and radiant common sense.
• They showed a lack of common sense that beggars belief.
• This conundrum poses two questions: First: does collective stupidity actually have a bottom limit or is it some kind of great cosmic suckhole from which reason and common sense simply cannot escape? The End-of-the-World Survival Kit
• Here's John Adams on Thomas Paine's famous 1776 pamphlet "Common Sense": "What a poor, ignorant, malicious, short-sighted, crapulous mass. William Hogeland: How John Adams and Thomas Paine Clashed Over Economic Equality
• A team of chemists found that when certain substances are diluted in water, the molecules clump together instead of getting further apart, as common sense would suggest.
• Windsurfing is perfectly safe as long as you have/use some common sense.
• Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense. Ronald Reagan 
• It's about time these highways officers had some foresight or common sense.
• Remember to use all necessary safety precautions - and common sense - when working on a roof, and call on a professional roofer for any repairs you're not fully comfortable undertaking on your own.
• First, it was a good thing that the negotiation process was led by a pair of egocentric men whose machismo instincts somehow consistently outweighed common courtesy, common dignity and common sense.