Sentence examples for more common words from inspiring English sources

But smaller, more common words are used so often and in so many different ways that a single one can be an incredible headache to revise.

In the new SAT, to be unveiled in 2015, David Coleman, president of the College Board, wants to get rid of obscure words that are... just SAT words, and replace them with more common words like "synthesis," "distill" and "transform," used in context as they will be in college and in life.

"SqueezeCenter" is not one of the more common words I use, so I had to look this one up to find out what they expected of me.

In the first set, Word Test A, less frequent words were used from the 2K, 3K, 5K, 10K bands; in Word Test B, more common words from the 1K-5K frequency bands were tested.

Some of what will creep in, he thinks, will be some of the more common words derived from Spanglish which isn't a language, but a term for various English-Spanish hybrids.

Some of the more common words you'll see are: Con: With.

I translated that into a more common word: dark.

Unfortunately, as our negative results show below, they are not much better regarding invertibility than the more common word sizes.

While "redhead" is arguably the more common word Americans use to describe those with red hair, Yagoda and Murphy have observed a rise in the use of the more traditionally British word "ginger".

However, that often is typed when than is meant--probably because it's the more common word (and one that connects thoughts), so writers' nimble fingers are likely, through muscle memory, to hit the t instead of the n.

"It is much more common for words designating either sex to become specialized for application to males, as in the case of 'man,' which from meaning 'human' has come to mean in most uses 'male human.'".