Example sentences for: vices

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

  • It's close to pure farce, yet its laughs are grounded in loneliness, impotence, self-loathing, and that most discomfiting of vices to dramatize: envy.

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

  • Yet most brushed off these well-known vices as incidental to the real story, which was about economic growth that was the wonder of the world.

  • It's an old argument, but Fish makes it new by going back to the source--John Locke--and showing that in order to arrive at the principle of separation of church and state (the bedrock of liberal polity ), Locke had to define religion as an internal process, each man's war "upon his own lusts and vices."

  • Feed the cat, hope things hold together long enough for my next two novels to get into print, watch a lot of E! Channel TV, and resume all vices, since mere self-destruction no longer matters.


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