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How to use common-sense in a sentence

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This is the common-sense notion that civil liberty must always be balanced against other societal interests, such as a nation's security.
Even with users pioneering a common-sense approach, some vendors are still pushing anachronistic solutions.
Smith offers common-sense advice for creating a charming and productive greenhouse.
I hope that a practical, common-sense application will be applied to the various issues that will arise.
Apart from the usual common-sense advice, there are a couple of critical pointers.
The common-sense centrists, the idealistic environmentalists and the blue-rinse wranglers had a rare moment of political concord.
We are therefore distributing a list of common-sense precautionary safety measures.
Thus we can have common-sense knowledge while not knowing that we are not having the delusive experience of a brain-in-a-vat.
But Musgrave, in his sturdy, common-sense way, only laughed at her seriousness over such kickshaws.
The bill contains a number of common-sense amendments to remedy several defects in transport legislation.
We approach things in a different way, we use more lateral thinking, and have more common-sense, practical solutions.
The statement is made with a common-sense matter-of-factness that resonates, even as part of me says it doesn't work that way.
It is a common-sense bill that will greatly benefit the dairy industry in this country.
Given those common-sense measures, it should be possible for most of us to make the best of Britain's rare sunny days and stay safe.
Cultural practices used in organic gardening include the use of mulches, crop rotation, and common-sense things like simple hygiene.
Some common-sense solutions, and neat statistics, are found within the paper.
This common-sense progressive message already is bubbling up from the grassroots to party leaders.
No great surprise there, except that this common-sense finding demolishes the implied presumptions of fervid gun control advocates.
She defended the common-sense fact that substantive adherence to the law requires the Court to avoid an absurdly formalistic approach.
It means what you twelve men and women sitting as a jury in the jury box would regard in a common-sense way as the cause.
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Examples from Classical Literature
At the same hour the same kind of mental thunder-storm was prevailing over 166 all common-sense at redware Hall.
It was the most squalid of Gretnas, bearding the decency and common-sense of a whole metropolis.
Quod non fieri debuit, was their just and common-sense point, factum valet.
I have often heard you lecturing Audrey on her impulsiveness and want of common-sense.
Good common-sense, incorruptibility, and a stern regard for the useful have enabled them to render valuable service to the nation.
She felt the repercussion of it in all her nerves, although her sound common-sense condemned the sensation as unreal.
But it was Gerald, who is no moralist, but a youth of sound common-sense, who closed the argument.
Already the barriers of custom and common-sense were raising their solid heads.
The canoeist of 1882 may follow the teachings of common-sense vs. unauthorized technical criticisms.
To reason thus is to put subtlety into the cathedra of common-sense, to bewilder vision by legerdemain.
Where in the name of common-sense, are our fears to end if we may not trust our sons, our brothers, our neighbors, our fellow-citizens?
He must be kind with a common-sense kindness, loving with a common-sense love.
Diseases are due to dirt, to vice, to overcrowding, to want of common-sense.
We applaud these common-sense steps the Administration announced today.
But this kind of logical legerdemain will never counteract the plain suggestions of justice and common-sense.
And this old common-sense view she labored to impress upon Jurgis, pleading with him with tears in her eyes.
And the dissonance of the complaint jarred her back to common-sense.
He seems to have plenty of common-sense, although he dotes on her.
Breakfast, followed by details of housekeeping, reinstated common-sense.
The question is the usual plain, straightforward, common-sense question.
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