Sentence examples for he was commonly from inspiring English sources
Thereafter he was commonly known as Colonel House.
He was commonly called a centrist and had no particular objection to the label.
By two o'clock he was commonly in bed, with another wreath of laurels hanging on the gas jet.
He said he was commonly asked to take cars, DVD and video players, computers and other valuables from Iraqi civilians for military use.
Wozniak or "Woz," as he was commonly known was the son of an electrical engineer for the Lockheed Missiles and Space Company in Sunnyvale, California, in what would become known as Silicon Valley.
Said liked to describe himself, in the words of the novelist Günter Grass, as an "intellectual without mandate": even though he was commonly seen as a staunch political partisan, he never considered himself to belong entirely to any camp, to be fully at home anywhere.
He is commonly compared to Chekhov.
Yet he is commonly regarded as the wisest of the Wise Men.
But the pugnacious Bibi, as he is commonly known, is a former commando and seasoned political street-fighter.
He is commonly characterized as an inflation hawk, a label Mr. Hoenig rejects as overly simplistic.
He is commonly identified with the Greek Hermes, the fleet-footed messenger of the gods.
