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Example sentences for "common form"

  • Now this 'common form' was the essence of French tragedy.

  • That diversity in its turn cannot be produced without a great multiplication of characters, a duplication or triplication of plot, and a complete disregard of pre-established 'common form.

  • It may indeed be said that they possess a 'common form' of certain incidents and situations, which reappear with slight changes and omissions in all or most of them.

  • Notwithstanding this, however, there are many passages where the old 'common form' of the epic is observed, and where the old personages make their appearance.

  • The overhanging second story was a common form of building in England in the time of Queen Elizabeth, and the Massachusetts and Rhode Island settlers simply and naturally copied their old homes.

  • At the time America was settled the common form of silver spoon in England had what was known as a baluster stem and a seal head; the assay mark was in the inner part of the bowl.

  • A common form of braid-loom was one that was laid upon a table.

  • The answer to this view of "common form" is easily found if we study the process by which injunctions were composed, as revealed in the great series of visitations by Bishop Alnwick.

  • The skyrocket is a common form of firework.

  • Defn: A tetrahexahedron; -- so called because it is a common form of fluorite.

  • Defn: A member of a common form of truss, as a roof truss.

  • It is quite a serviceable instrument for several kinds of work, and it seems to have been a common form.

  • A common form was a sickle-shaped instrument, the circular part being hollow and semicircular on section, and admirably adapted for warming and pouring oil and other medicaments into the ear as above described.

  • Thus a common form of toilet instruments consists of a probe-like instrument with an olive at one end and a sharp stylet at the other.

  • For larger work we have the compasses, a common form of which is shown in Fig.

  • In the ordinary or common form of moulding cutter, the front face is flat and the lower end is bevelled off and filed to shape so as to give the required shape and keenness to the cutting edges, Fig.

  • A common form of pipe tongs of this class is shown in Fig.

  • Common form, as I have observed before, is so much nearer beauty than deformity, that it is, in abstract idea, the model to compose beauty of form from.

  • A tetrahexahedron; -- so called because it is a common form of fluorite.

  • A common form of corbel consists of courses of stones or bricks, each projecting slightly beyond the next below it.

  • The skyrocket is a common form of firework.

  • This is a common form of displacement, and generally occurs between the ages of fourteen and fifty.

  • Malarial headache, sometimes termed "brow ague," is a common form of the malady with those residing in malarial regions.

  • Because they show how the most diverse structures may be developed from a common form.

  • Lamarck had unsuccessfully attempted to explain the modification of organisms that descend from a common form chiefly by the action of habit and the use of organs, though with the aid of heredity.

  • A common form of throttling governor is shown in Fig.

  • A common form of outboard bearing for an engine of the slow-speed or Corliss type is illustrated in Fig.

  • A common form of steam engine indicator is shown in Fig.

  • Common Form of Throttling Governor] The shaft governor is used almost universally on high-speed engines, and is shown in one form in Fig.

  • A common form of promissory note is shown in Fig.

  • The following is a common form of judgment note: $100.

  • The following is a common form of collateral note used by banks: $5,000.

  • The following is a common form of stock certificate: The Consolidated Tack Co.

  • This is the "common form" which I have adopted in my version.

  • In the common form there are three stages, viz.

  • The lectica, or, as it was called at a later period, the sella, may in the first instance have been used to carry the sick, but in a short time became a common form of conveyance.

  • One notices that lilies were apparently a common form of decoration on these early carriages, but it is to be regretted that the accounts in general are so scanty.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "common form" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    became the; common among; common descent; common enough; common friend; common humanity; common impulse; common interests; common land; common name; common noun; common opinion; common parlance; common salt; common source; common stock; common term; common things; common usage; commonly made; commonly regarded; corned beef; east coast; papa said; see the; thick darkness