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

Now that's all threatened because of scandals of the common sort in the Philippines�election cheating, graft�and Arroyo's handling of them.

From Time Magazine Archive

Always supposed, though, she was a common sort of woman.

From Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West by Mitford, Bertram

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 Brady, Loretta Ellen

Among the common sort there was at once a desire to see a further illustration of His powers.

From A Second Coming by Marsh, Richard