common sort
Example Sentences
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“I do think that the board and the mayor have a common sort of goal of ... trying to solve some of these problems that the electorate seems to still be quite upset about.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2025
Religious, moral and economic forces had acted upon serfdom, the more common sort of slavery in Europe, and aided by the resulting increase of vigor among the serfs themselves, had disintegrated it.
From The Negro and the elective franchise. A Series Of Papers And A Sermon (The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 11.) by Charles C. Cook
For though the Apple Tree bore fruit this year, it bore naught but red apples of a common sort; I scorn to gather them!
From The Green Forest Fairy Book by Loretta Ellen Brady
These, though highly ornamental when mixed with the common sort, are not prized, owing to their being a more conspicuous mark for poachers.
From British Birds in their Haunts by Rev. C. A. Johns
This is something far better than the common sort of sensational war-stories.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur
