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Example sentences for "more commonly"

  • It is more commonly observed in infants and young children.

  • They appear as a rule suddenly, rarely in great numbers, are scattered, and after a few hours or, more commonly, days gradually disappear.

  • After a time the apex is drawn out of the empty seed-coats, and rises up, forming a right angle, or more commonly a still larger angle with the lower part, and occasionally the whole becomes nearly straight.

  • These leaflets, in going to sleep, either turn vertically upwards, or more commonly bend a little over the lateral leaflets, so that their lower surfaces are more exposed to the zenith than their upper surfaces.

  • A STEM is that part of a word which contains its meaning, and is either a root alone or more commonly a root with an addition called a Formative Suffix.

  • Z z, zed, more commonly called izzard or uzzard, that is, s hard.

  • Weld, but and save "are commonly considered prepositions," but "are more commonly termed conjunctions!

  • Such a makeshift boat is more commonly made by Sea Dayaks.

  • A pig is sometimes used in the ceremony by which a newly-made peace is sealed between tribes hitherto at blood-feuds, but a fowl is more commonly used.

  • The third place on the list ought to be given to the ficus, more commonly known as rubber-plant.

  • It is more commonly known as asparagus fern, though it is not even a most distant relative of the fern family.

  • Celastrus scandens, more commonly known as bittersweet, is a native vine that can easily be domesticated.

  • We sometimes also call those who bear pain unflinchingly courageous: but this quality of character we more commonly distinguish as Fortitude.

  • The honor of laying the first stone of the new church, the same that is now standing, is attributed to one of the most celebrated of the abbots, John Roussel, more commonly known by the name of Marcdargent.

  • The grammar has not changed much, but the use of the compound and impersonal forms is more frequent, and the verb menny has begun to be more commonly used as a simple future auxiliary.

  • This is more commonly found in the impersonal form, mî, tî, etc.

  • The cement issues either in a cellular condition, or more commonly as a fine network, which, at a short distance from the orifices (Pl.

  • Chthamalus is, perhaps, more commonly attached to rocks than are the other genera.

  • The lower edge of the sheath either simply projects a little inwards, or more commonly is formed into a sharp depending ridge, as represented in fig.

  • In regard to the alae, their lateral or sutural edges are either thin and smooth, or, more commonly, finely crenated or ribbed.

  • In the paler yellow or greenish forms the stipe is more commonly black.

  • These are usually spherical, sometimes flattened at various points by mutual contact; they are of various colors, more commonly yellow or violet brown, are sometimes smooth (?

  • More commonly called indented (which see), with regard to lines or parapets.

  • More commonly written waft (which see).

  • He was sometimes called ship's sweeper; more commonly captain of swabbers.

  • The former shows a want of tact, the latter a want of breeding, or, more commonly, a spirit of sheer impudence.

  • The exercise of the imagination in selecting and treating a theme, or more commonly in contriving the arrangement of a piece, or the method of presenting its parts.

  • The ordeals of hot iron or water were, however, more commonly used; and it has been a perplexing question by what dexterity these tremendous proofs were eluded.

  • These lower barons, or more commonly tenants by parcels of baronies,[292] may be dimly traced to the latter years of Edward III.

  • In some the reversionary bonus is calculated as an equal percentage per annum of the sum insured, reckoning back either to the commencement of the policy in every case, or (more commonly) to the preceding division of profits.

  • The plan has met with little favour in England, where surplus is more commonly distributed on general business principles.


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


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