Example sentences for: vices

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

  • The nondrinking, nonsmoking, noncarousing, and mostly monolingual CIA officials of today do not have the vices of either their more adventurous contemporaries or their flamboyant Ivy League predecessors, but it is really unfair to expect them to cope with all those foreigners out there.

  • Their vices are few--they enjoy an occasional glass of wine or beer, and now and then one may overindulge in chocolate-spiked trail mix.

  • Just as Starr's virtues turned vicious, Clinton's vices sometimes turn virtuous.

  • As journalism has become less of a trade and more of a profession, once common vices like embellishment, plagiarism, and binge drinking have ceased to be regarded as charming.

  • He rarely washes, smokes and drinks too much (amongst other similar vices), and spends the time he's not watching infomercials until 4 a.m., pining over a girl who broke up with him long ago.


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