The textile artist used common madder to dye the linen a deep crimson.

A common redpoll landed on the feeder and quickly devoured the seeds.

common bitterns rose from the reeds with muffled booming calls that echoed across the marsh.

At dawn, I heard the booming call of a common bittern hiding in the reedbed.

A common scoter plunged beneath the choppy waves, resurfacing not far from the rocky shoreline.

Every summer, the town organizes common ridings to mark the boundaries of the shared grazing lands.

Every spring the villagers took part in the common riding to mark and remember the parish boundaries.

A common sandpiper darted along the riverbank, probing for insects among the stones.

In calculus class, we used common logarithms to simplify the exponential decay model.

While photographing flowers in the garden, I was thrilled to spot a common rose resting on a crimson hibiscus.