Example sentences for: discipline

How can you use “discipline” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • I said that I believe the solutions range from tough measures to get guns away from kids and criminals, to more discipline and values in our schools, to more self-restraint in the use of gratuitous violence in the entertainment media, to more parental involvement in the lives of our children--which of course means we need to give working parents more help in balancing work and family.

  • Sun Ra saw himself as a charismatic leader who would deliver his followers through patriarchal discipline.

  • In law, the analysis of footnotes even sustains a new minor discipline, "citology."

  • Sokal's paper, intentionally stripped of logic, evidence, and even meaning, was accepted for publication in the cultural studies journal Social Text . True, this was a one-time event, but it was an event so far removed from anything that could possibly occur in a legitimate academic enterprise that it converted agnostics like me, who had doubted the status of cultural studies as an intellectual discipline, into hard-core cynics with no doubt whatsoever.

  • On the contrary--accepting papers without peer review is an abdication of scholarly responsibility under the best of circumstances and a poor idea for an association of evolutionary psychologists, whose discipline is notorious for attracting cranks.


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