Words similar to adage
Example sentences for: adage
How can you use “adage” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
A new adage is proving true in Washington: Ex-politicians don't retire.
The beneficiary family seems to be proving the old adage: No good deed goes unpunished.
The political adage states that politics stops at the water's edge.
Though the author of Advertisements for Myself has always liked his sex the way a schoolboy likes his pie--any way he can get it--he was never the hippest cat in the pack (witness "The White Negro," his attempt to grapple with the Beats, which proved the adage that those who had to ask what hip was, weren't).
Remember the old adage: There’s no bad weather, only bad clothing.