Example sentences for: ethos

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

  • Although decades old, the technology is perennially futuristic--it was the Romulans of Star Trek , after all, who first invented "cloaking"--and it advances the ethos of American can-doism.

  • The hockey ethos is to be elaborately casual and gruff about competitive achievement: Outstanding performance gets you a little slap on the helmet, a good-natured insult.

  • His animating spirit--a pragmatic, idealistic humanitarianism--is rapidly becoming the ethos of the age.

  • He then accused Brent and Yale of having "caved" in to the ethos of "historical correctness" governed by "revisionists who dismiss as cold war humbug the notion that the Soviet Union was a totalitarian country."

  • I intended to ask participants to devise similar but imaginary perqs that perfectly captured the ethos of other media companies, but then I couldn't shake the image of Ved Mehta in spandex, so I think I'd better go lie down and put a cold compress on my forehead.


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