Example sentences for: ethos

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

  • Amid all the triumphant rhetoric about the orderly transition from welfare to work, it seems that many people who are still entitled to food stamps aren't getting them for reasons that include ignorance, new state restrictions, and the general down-with-the-welfare-state ethos of the age.

  • Is it increasingly a choice between back-to-basics traditionalism in the test-conscious public school system and a considerably more progressive, or "constructivist," ethos in private schools?

  • 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."

  • 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.

  • There is an ethos of letting the chips fall where they may about the sending out of galleys: Now the book will begin to receive uncontrolled reaction.


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