Example sentences for: espoused

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

  • I like the theory espoused in the 1960s by the British essayist Clive James.

  • A left-wing Democrat who espoused Zen Buddhism and the legalization of marijuana, he also imposed environmental protection measures and energy resources long before others began to see the wisdom of such policies.

  • He was especially harsh with his former friend Ernest Dowden, who espoused a benevolent Irish cosmopolitanism in opposition to Yeats' literary nationalism.

  • Indeed, the whole "New Economy" doctrine--a doctrine relentlessly espoused by his magazine for the last few years and vociferously defended in a recent signed essay by Shepard himself--is based on a misunderstanding of the relationship between measurement and reality that is conceptually identical to the garbled thinking of the imaginary editor retrieving his car.

  • Papandréou espoused the desires of a post-war generation to maintain peace and stability, and to secure a better future for their children.


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