Example sentences for: vices

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

  • A meaningless job, which anyone could have done, an undistinguished education, a home like any other in a crushingly ordinary neighborhood, a daily commute, no particular vices, and nothing to speak of in the line of contact sexuality--a white, Anglo-Saxon, middle-class life which, in external respects, was lived by innumerable unmarried sons answerable to family responsibilities, and marked by the lonely longings of a protracted virginity probably not all that unusual at the time, especially when, in Cornell's case, there were no riddling princesses to overcome his natural shyness and unprepossessing looks.

  • The result is a system with all the vices of both regulation and competition, and few of the virtues of either.

  • I've written enough here about the vices of mergers, and those vices are well-documented enough, to make any extended comment on the Monsanto/Pharmacia deal superfluous.

  • In my many hours standing next to hockey rinks last winter, I sometimes engaged in one of the Jews' secret vices: Jew-counting.

  • Rather than celebrate the transformation of his vices into virtues, they argued that his momentary virtues will revert to vices.


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