common consent
Example Sentences
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By common consent, when United's troublesome Premier League campaign came to an end in May, the key failing that had to be addressed was their lack of goals.
From BBC • Jul. 18, 2025
He’s so insufferably priggish that at school his name, William Orser, has by common consent been elided to the nonexistent word “Worser,” just to drive him crazy.
From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2022
A new film by Julian Schnabel, “At Eternity’s Gate,” with Willem Dafoe playing the man we refer to, by common consent, as “poor Vincent,” captures this beauty.
From Washington Post • Nov. 16, 2018
Banter, by common consent, wasn’t confined to mocking each other: it was about action.
From The Guardian • Jun. 30, 2017
By common consent they were using the spears as sabers now, no longer daring the lethal points.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
