Example sentences for: spirit

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

  • The first literary salon in history was presided over by Aspasia, Pericles’ mistress, a remarkable woman of intelligence and spirit.

  • Again, please don't take this in the spirit of reductive p.c.

  • Such a joint center should be developed in the same spirit that guided the military's creation of unified joint commands, or the shaping of earlier national agencies like the National Reconnaissance Office, which was formed to organize the work of the CIA and several defense agencies in space.

  • The original Godzilla is a dragon , a mythical destroyer who's close in spirit to the Jewish legend of the Golem--the colossal, indestructible clay man summoned up out of all the dark forces of this world who can't be destroyed by any of this world's weapons.

  • Ireland's Sunday Business Post called for the British prime minister to apply his Kosovo spirit to Northern Ireland, saying, "[I]t's time for Blair to assert his position and power to effect change, demonstrated so clearly in the Balkans in recent weeks."


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