Sentence examples for was as common from inspiring English sources

Kidnapping was as common as rain.

The collision was as common as any in racing.

In Colonial America hard cider was as common as beer.

(And this was before the Internet was as common as it is now).

Joan's home phone number, and her last name was as common as Smith.

The nine-hole golf round was as common as a slice off the first tee.

Back then, the birth of a bowling alley was as common as the death of one is these days.

When she came to Ciudad Ju z 14 years ago from Oaxaca State, work was as common as dust.

We were also full-time suburban housewives back in the days when that was as common as the white bread we fed ourselves and our families.

("Around our house, marijuana was as common as pasta," Ms. Knox wrote, recalling that one of her roommates taught her how to roll a joint properly).

She was employed by the Department of Corrections, where she would type up Dodgems, the poetry magazine she was publishing, which, at the time, was as common as starting a band.