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of joint or shared interest
we have several things in common
when an audience is responding to a play they are identifying what they have in common with the human beings on stage -
in joint use or possession
property held in common
mites are arachnids, but they have a lot in common with insects
How To Use in common In A Sentence
- Where destruction pure and simple is desired, the shell is charged with a high explosive such as picric acid or T.N.T., the colloquial abbreviation for the devastating agent scientifically known as "Trinitrotoluene," the base of which, in common with all the high explosives used by the different powers and variously known as lyddite, melinite, cheddite, and so forth, is picric acid. Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War
- We have one great thing in common with Mars - both planets orbit the same star.
- The irony in Anglicanism’s devotion to its new substitute god, inclusivity, is that the only thing those who are not excluded have in common is that they are with a bunch of other people who are also not excluded. Diocese of Toronto: a Good Friday exclusive « Anglican Samizdat
- What do these four news items have in common? Times, Sunday Times
- I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau
- The 15 spaces have only their fierce commitment to individuality (and, of course, their amenities) in common, ranging in style from slick minimalism to full-on kitsch.
- This system realizes the basic edit function and some functions in common use.
- For all their differences and ambiguities, empires have shared in common a will to power that should make us skeptical of their most optimistic self-assessments.
- Why do goats sing and what can a bee, a mouse, and an unknown furry creature have in common?
- This makes back and neck pain common. The Sun
