common people

How To Use common people In A Sentence

• How often I have I known him affect an open brow and a jovial manner, joining in the games of the gentry, and even in the sports of the common people, in order to invest himself with a temporary degree of popularity; while, in fact, his heart was bursting to witness what he called the degeneracy of the times, the decay of activity among the aged, and the want of zeal in the rising generation. Redgauntlet
• And you are right, since salaries and general common people welfare dropped under retirement pension level (while profits and PIB soared during the 30 past year and more) it is the pensions that should be lovered, that makes sense ... Betanews
• Life in the city for the common people is a relentless struggle to keep out of trouble and keep your head above water.
• Maybe those elites could even attend the same public Universities with overfilled lecture halls as the common people that will never make it to the elite off any sector. Matthew Yglesias » Institutional Aspects of Regulatory Reform
• After the brutal long-drawn-out tribal war, the common people living in the area are all yearning for peace and security.
• The ephialtes, or nightmare, is called by the common people witch-riding.
• The common people enjoyed a licence known in no other country. The Search for Justice - a history of Britain and the British people Volume III
• Every tragedy makes heroes of common people. 
• This may have arisen from the fact that Paine's doctrine was much more plain and intelligible to the common people: it was operatical and proposed immediate excision; that is, it advocated the total overthrow of monarchy, and the establishment of republicanism. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
• He also remarked on the harmful effects of ‘the almost universal belief amongst the common people in so-called spells and bewitchments’.