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Example sentences for "common sight"

  • A common sight on a rest day in the pueblo is that of a young man and woman, each with an arm around the other, loitering about under the same blanket, talking and laughing, one often almost supporting the other.

  • In Paris, London, Berlin, the motor mail van is a common sight.

  • It is a common sight to see creatures basking under one of these instruments in a somewhat comatose state.

  • There are a few minerals very plentiful, resembling brass, and it is a common sight to see polished buildings fantastic in their arrangement, shining through the pellucid water like gold.

  • It is a common sight to see parts of a sidewalk heaved up by a tree root and their force in this respect is tremendous.

  • Fate sometimes overtakes them, however, as it is a common sight to see the strangler meet the same end.

  • The abundant water supply in the rain forests results in an atmosphere saturated with water vapor and in some of them it is a common sight in the morning to see the forest rising out of an unbroken blanket of mist.

  • In any village or city in France it is a common sight on a pleasant day to find the householder turning his roaster on the curb in front of his home.

  • Modern plantation machinery is very scarce; the ancient method of hulling coffee in a circular trough where the dried berries are crushed by heavy wooden wheels drawn by oxen, is still a common sight in Venezuela.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "common sight" 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:
    common bird; common carrier; common carriers; common cause; common descent; common enemy; common experience; common friend; common interest; common knowledge; common language; common law; common noun; common occurrence; common parlance; common progenitor; common schools; common sight; common species; common summer; common temperatures; common water; commonly called; commonly termed; commonly used; other houses