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Example sentences for "not uncommon"

  • In moist soil; river banks and basins, shores of lakes, not uncommon in drier locations.

  • The work of a boy of eighteen, it had that instinct of the future, of the set of the literary current, not uncommon in youthful artists, of which Chatterton's precocious verses are a remarkable instance.

  • A distemper called chachar, much resembling the smallpox, and in its first stages mistaken for it, is not uncommon.

  • Sometimes it remains unadjusted to the second and third generation, and it is not uncommon to see a man suing for the jujur of the sister of his grandfather.

  • Their appropriate title (not uncommon in other Malayan countries) is Iang de per-tuan, literally signifying he who ruleth.

  • A convulsive disease, attended with ravenous hunger, not uncommon in Sweden and Germany.

  • It is not uncommon in massive eruptive rocks.

  • April 20 "in an arroyo east of Saltillo" and found this subspecies "not uncommon in the open desert twenty miles west of Saltillo, where three singing males were secured.

  • This subspecies is not uncommon in Coahuila.

  • Blindness also is not uncommon, particularly where they are fed much on hemp seed.

  • It is not uncommon in Britain, such as near London, &c.

  • In the large pine tracts in the north of Scotland, it is said to be not uncommon, and it used to be found also in the neighbourhood of Glasgow, but has been seldom observed in England.

  • It is not uncommon in Cornwall in spring, and indeed it visits many of our English counties.

  • It is, however, not uncommon on migration.

  • This use of the verb rire in the sense of plaire is not uncommon.

  • A not uncommon use of the imperfect indicative in the sense of the conditional.

  • This peculiar and somewhat awkward construction is not uncommon to Marivaux.

  • It is not uncommon to see people with different colored eyes.

  • Hernia of the stomach is not uncommon, especially in diaphragmatic or umbilical deficiency.

  • Discharge of the fetal bones or even the whole of an extrauterine fetus by the rectum is not uncommon.

  • The preservation of the sexual power after injuries of this kind is not uncommon.

  • It is not uncommon to find pregnancy, lactation, and menstruation coexisting.

  • It is not uncommon, for example, to see food partly consumed by a sick person given to children, or it may be that a child in the sick room is fed dainties prepared for the use of the patient.

  • It is not uncommon to hear the mother of a family say, 'I never allow my girls to touch stimulants of any kind, but I give them each a glass of coca wine at 11 in the morning, and again at bedtime.

  • In prescriptions which are to be seen in many text-books, it is not uncommon to find from one to two or three, or even four drachms of rectified spirit in the form of tinctures or spirits.

  • In England it is not uncommon to use the term "unnatural offence;" this is an awkward and possibly misleading practice which should not be followed.

  • In India opium (as well as cannabis indica) has long been a not uncommon aphrodisiac; it is specially used to diminish local sensibility, delaying the orgasm and thus prolonging the sexual act.

  • The most interesting is probably fur, the attraction of which is not uncommon in association with passive algolagnia.

  • The appearance of skin eruptions is not uncommon.

  • Second attacks have occurred, but many such are more apparent than real, since an error in diagnosis is not uncommon.

  • In a not uncommon type of malaria the attacks occur every third day, with two days of intermission or freedom from fever.

  • Constipation throughout the disease is, however, not uncommon in the more serious cases.

  • I have never found more than two eggs, and I have taken great numbers of nests; but I am told that three in a nest is not uncommon.

  • Barnes writes:-- "The Magpie is not uncommon in the hills wherever there are trees, but it seldom descends to the plains.

  • It is not uncommon to find a few hair-like dark brown lines, more or less zigzag, about the larger end.

  • Pyriform, elongated, and globular varieties are common; long Cormorant-shaped eggs and perfect ovals are not uncommon.

  • Thorough cooking of meat appears to destroy the vitality of the worm, but in foreign countries where the pork is eaten in an uncooked or an undercooked condition the disease is not uncommon.

  • It is not uncommon to find one or more of the teats of a sow much smaller in size than the others.

  • The sow should then be made to rise, or if she refuses, as is not uncommon, the hind quarters of the sow should be raised and the protruding portion be gently but firmly forced back.

  • Of course this is not uncommon in birds, but none that I have seen use these members so significantly as he did.

  • This is a not uncommon habit of cage birds.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "not uncommon" 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:
    conclude peace; found only; minister from; not altogether; not ask; not far; not find; not indeed; not know; not know what you; not like; not mistaken; not necessarily; not such; not that; not there; not wish; note book; note here; nothing can; nothing except; nothing like; nothing much; nothing remarkable; nothing short; notice the