Example sentences for: virtuous

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

  • But as far as personal conduct goes, The Nation is probably as conventionally virtuous as any magazine in the land.

  • The episode stands as yet another eerie precursor to George W.'s life: As a much-overlooked New York Times story noted last spring, W. became the GOP front-runner largely because many people who told pollsters they favored Bush were "actually thinking of the father"; the confusion triggered a virtuous cycle of high poll numbers, improved fund-raising, and endorsements that has lifted W. above the pack.

  • Stendhal posed it in the 1830s in his novel Lucien Leuwen , in which the wealthy young Parisian hero contemplates fleeing the corruptions of monarchical old France for a new start in virtuous republican America.

  • Virtuous Reality T-Shirt: "Designed for FRC's Save-Sex campaign, this clever logo on a brilliant red t-shirt is a subtle way to impart the positive message that a virtuous life is the reality we need to strive for.

  • Caruso, as a dour, crusading prosecutor, is called, alternatively, "credible" and "likable" (Shales, the Washington Post ), and humorless and "as virtuous as John Calvin" (Leonard, New York ). (See CBS's preview.)


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