Example sentences for: virtuous

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

  • Indeed, wishing well for the other as an end in himself is an essential component of philia or friendship understood broadly, and this sentiment, Aristotle believed, provides the necessary foundation for all virtuous behavior.

  • Lest one think I'm exaggerating Katz's martyr complex, check out Virtuous Reality 's Chapter 7, in which he chronicles the life and times of another political rebel who embraced a new technology to speak truth to power and suffered greatly for it: Thomas Paine.

  • The virtuous but lively daughters of Protestant capitalists were encouraged to show some ankle and make advantageous marriages.

  • There probably is a virtuous circle at work in which the strength of the economy as a whole pushes up stock prices, the gains from which are then put back to work in the economy.

  • At the end of his speech, Bradley says that if people share his vision of a virtuous nation, they are welcome to support him.


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