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
At the same time it is being whispered about among the common sort that you are a traitor to the Islonian cause, and to your father.
From The MS. in a Red Box by John Arthur Hamilton
These pass to and fro over the bridges, gathering tidings from forgotten realms; and much of majesty and worth that escapeth the common sort is apparent unto them.
From All Men are Ghosts by L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall) Jacks
I am the most usual, common sort of woman, who must have someone in love with her and be in love.
From The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
Still, Harrison took more kindly to the common sort than Shakspere did in his plays.—F.
From Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison by William Harrison
