Example sentences for: virtuous

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

  • "Their loss of control has been jarring to our traditional media and political organizations, who had sat astride a tight monopoly over politics and news," Katz writes in Virtuous Reality . "They fought back and have been fighting ever since, complaining that these new interactive media are dangerous and destructive of public discourse.

  • The self-immolation of widows, known as sati — a widow becomes sati, a “virtuous woman,” by climbing onto her husband’s funeral pyre — has disappeared, but the monkey-god Hanuman and elephant-headed Ganesh are still idolized, and nobody will dare to deny the sanctity of the cow and all her products: milk, curd, butter, and dung, the last of which is used for fuel.

  • 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.

  • Just as the shift of money into Internet stocks was partly the product of a virtuous circle created by institutions trying to keep their portfolios invested in stocks that had "momentum," so too was the shift out partly the product of a vicious circle created by institutions trying to dump stocks that suddenly didn't have momentum.

  • He did not distinguish between villainous charismatic figures and virtuous ones because such distinctions, he felt, would muddy sociological comparisons.


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