Example sentences for: righteous

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

  • He paved the way for the Bronsons and Chuck Norrises and Seagals and Jean-Claude Van Dammes and all the other righteous slayers of post-midnight cable-movie-channel programming.

  • If, on the other hand, I turn round and do it to you, it probably means that I am turning in heroic defiance, wheeling in righteous indignation, turning on my tormentors.

  • "We're far from certain that her brand of righteous liberalism is what the people of New York want or need," say the editors, "but we are sure that it would be healthy for the country to find out."

  • To consider Moltke more "righteous" than Stauffenberg--the one who actually did something--borders on the perverse.

  • It's impossible to read his book, with its righteous denunciations of "tawdry voyeurism," and think his main complaint with the coverage of Clinton's sex life is that it wasn't forthright enough about the pleasures of disclosing the "private lives of public people."


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