Example sentences for: sanctimonious

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

  • Just days later came his ill-advised assault on Los Angeles Times critic Kenneth Turan's sanctimonious anti- Titanic thumbsucker.

  • Clearly, Jesse Jackson is nowhere near being the biggest and most sanctimonious self-promoter among Clinton's inner circle of ministers/marriage counselors.

  • Reviews of the senators so far: Thompson--fair and brave; Glenn--petty and partisan; Lieberman--honest and constructive; Torricelli--servile and sanctimonious.

  • But it does, perhaps because four decades of sanctimonious droning by Brinkley as a network news anchor and then as the founding pundit of This Week created the illusion that he was a principled journalist who couldn't be bought by a price-fixing corporation.

  • As we house shopped, we realized we were being punished for our sanctimonious attitudes and for enjoying our easy bus ride to work.


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