Sentence examples for common writing from inspiring English sources

Common writing & speech are being drowned out & the air is choked with words from computers.

Barry went back to school, trained as a teacher and eventually moved back to Hoyland Common, writing novels in the school library when the children had gone home.

Ben Yagoda teaches journalism at the University of Delaware and is the author, most recently, of "How to Not Write Bad: The Most Common Writing Problems and the Best Ways to Avoid Them".

Ben Yagoda is a professor of English at the University of Delaware and the author of "How to Not Write Bad: The Most Common Writing Problems and How to Avoid Them," "About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made" and other books.

These projects, like our own, all have one problem in common: writing a database entry does not in general count as a sign of productivity for a life scientist and does usually not help getting promoted or obtain funding.

Participants chose all of their applicable racial/ethnic groups from a list of the most common, writing in any others; those reporting mixed ethnicity were assigned to a single group based on the priority ranking: African American, Native Hawaiian, Latina, Japanese American, and White.

So, cue conservative outrage over Michelle Obama's inviting rapper Common to a White House poetry reading, because Common wrote an adulatory song about Black Panther Assata Shakur.

"The conversion of preventive into preventative is an error too common," wrote the anonymous scribe.

"The essential characteristic of a nation is that all its individuals must have many things in common," wrote the 19th-century French philosopher Ernest Renan.

"Disputes involving both players and spectators were common," writes David Underdown in Start of Play, his survey of cricket in the 18th century.

"We have, as they say, nothing in common," writes Houellebecq mordantly at the outset, "except we are both rather contemptible individuals".