Example sentences for: common--and

How can you use “common--and” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It's the kind of instant de-homogenizing sensation you sometimes get in the subway, when you suddenly awaken to the fact that the dozen faces you've been staring vacantly at across the aisle from you belong to a dozen different moral universes--not just in the trivial sense that we all see the world differently, but in the distinctly nontrivial sense that people sitting right next to each other really can have nothing in common--and that you'll never know a single one.

  • "A year ago, I, too, reserved a truck at U-Haul and get this--they said someone with my SAME NAME--Susan Hwang is really common--and going to the SAME SUBURB of Chicago, picked up my truck.

  • He contends that such abuses of power are common--and largely ignored--in the specialized anti-gang and anti-drug units of the Rampart Division.


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