Example sentences for: onus

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

  • Her approach points the way for liberals to gain credibility by shedding the onus of being "social engineers," and take their turn at playing the populist anti-expert card.

  • The onus for double entendre, particularly if risqué, properly lies with the perceiver.

  • .Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger, President Clinton's national security adviser, put the onus on the Palestinians.

  • Now they're low on priests, and capitalism stands rampant, with its attendant onus on the poor.

  • To be sure, he was far too good and honorable a scholar to be considered, even remotely, a deliberate plagiarist; but he was careless at times and rather mean, and his apologies, always couched in language that tried to put the onus on others, come through as being very insincere indeed.


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