diff --git a/packages/cursorless-vscode/src/keyboard/KeyboardCommandHandler.ts b/packages/cursorless-vscode/src/keyboard/KeyboardCommandHandler.ts
index dc48d87bb8..ccbee152cc 100644
--- a/packages/cursorless-vscode/src/keyboard/KeyboardCommandHandler.ts
+++ b/packages/cursorless-vscode/src/keyboard/KeyboardCommandHandler.ts
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import {
 import KeyboardCommandsTargeted from "./KeyboardCommandsTargeted";
 import { ModalVscodeCommandDescriptor } from "./TokenTypes";
 import { surroundingPairsDelimiters } from "@cursorless/cursorless-engine";
-import { isString } from "./isString";
+import { isString } from "lodash";
 
 /**
  * This class defines the keyboard commands available to our modal keyboard
diff --git a/packages/cursorless-vscode/src/keyboard/isString.ts b/packages/cursorless-vscode/src/keyboard/isString.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 60cd9adcdd..0000000000
--- a/packages/cursorless-vscode/src/keyboard/isString.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-export function isString(input: any): input is string {
-  return typeof input === "string" || input instanceof String;
-}