How to use "common" in a sentence

In such a spirit on my part and on yours we face our common difficulties

If I read the temper of our people correctly, we now realize, as we have never realized before, our interdependence on each other; that we cannot merely take, but we must give as well; that if we are to go forward, we must move as a trained and loyal army willing to sacrifice for the good of a common discipline, because without such discipline no progress can be made, no leadership becomes effective.

With this pledge taken, I assume unhesitatingly the leadership of this great army of our people dedicated to a disciplined attack upon our common problems.

Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need - not as a call to battle, though embattled we are - but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation" - a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself.

Not that: we're not common thieves!" And he throws the bag to Little John

"It's just common sense

He realized they had even more in common than he had thought

The more they talked, the more they found in common

Bob shook his head in agreement, frowning, as if he was dismayed to think that he could be mistaken for a common thief.

They looked and acted like organization men, even though the big one was rough enough at the edges to pass for a common thug

It's like strep throat or the common cold or like cancer, because you can get it again and again..

He was alone on the common.

The two men hurried back at once to the common, and found the cylinder still lying in the same position

By eight o'clock a number of boys and unemployed men were already walking to the common to see the 'dead men from Mars'

I heard it first from my newspaper boy at about a quarter to nine and I went to the common immediately.

By the afternoon the appearance of the common had changed very much

When I returned to the common, the sun was setting

The common was now covered with small groups of people

This gave people confidence and as darkness fell, a slow, uncertain movement on the common began

I realized that I was helpless and alone on this dark common

The silent common, my escape, the flames, seemed like a dream

'What news from the common?' I said.

'What news from the common?' I repeated.

'People seem fairly silly about the common,' the woman said over the gate

People came to the common and left it, but all the time a crowd remained

One or two adventurous people went into the darkness and crawled quite near the Martians, but they never returned, because now and again a light-ray swept round the common, and the Heat-Ray was ready to follow

At about eleven, a company of soldiers came through Horsell and spread out in a great circle around the common

Several officers had been on the common earlier in the day and one was reported to be missing

I went into my garden and stood listening, but towards the common there was nothing moving.

After breakfast, instead of working, I decided to walk down towards the common

An ordinary engineer is much better educated than a common soldier, and they discussed, with some intelligence, the odd conditions of the possible fight.

At about six in the evening, as I had tea with my wife in the garden, I heard an explosion from the common, and immediately after that the sound of gunfire

'We can't stay here,' I said, and as I spoke the firing started again for a moment on the common.

Very far away, lit by red fire, the common was visible

I turned my desk chair to the window and stared out at the country and, in particular, at the three enormous black Things that were moving around the common

Then the tripod walked slowly over the common

And, shining in the morning light, three of the tripods stood on the common, their tops turning as they examined the damage they had done.

Even the afternoon papers had nothing to tell apart from the movement of soldiers around the common, and the burning of the woods between Woking and Weybridge

'This is my country: all this hill down to the river and up to the edge of the common

'Why were you walking around on the common,' I asked, 'instead of being here?'

They didn't curse us with common curses

Immense necessity! Universal want! We discovered this common problem when we met in Europe after Percival's marriage