Sentence examples for was commonly applied from inspiring English sources
adverb
As a rule; frequently; usually
Silver and niello inlay was commonly applied to bronze plates.
The editors (I was one at the time) argued that what constituted torture was still a matter of debate, that this issue was not just linguistic but legal and had not yet been resolved by a court, and that the word was commonly applied to such a range of practices as to be imprecise.
Clearcutting was commonly applied to steep slopes and involved the removal of all trees over an area that might range from 4 to 16 ha in size.
"The so-called 'water treatment' was commonly applied" by the Japanese, according to an International Military Tribunal for the Far East report.
The phrase is sometimes reversed (as Moore has done): "All his geese are swans", which was commonly applied to people who think too much of the beauty and talent of their children and derived from Aesop's fable "The Eagle and the Owl".
Enteral nutrition was commonly applied by nasogastric tube in 87.6% (n = 85) and gastrostomy tube in 10.3% (n = 10).
In the suburbs, where Dursban is commonly applied to lawns, some stores began pulling products containing it off their shelves.
So it appears that the men of science need more vision than is commonly applied to his work.
The term hibernation is commonly applied to all types of winter dormancy in vertebrate animals.
The technique is commonly applied to steel objects, to which it imparts hardness.
Carpets made of just the warp and weft are called flat weaves or kilims (this term is commonly applied to tribal and Oriental carpets, but not exclusively).
