MORAL in a Sentence
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279 example sentences for MORAL, such as:
1. The moral effect was sufficient.
2. It was so clearly a moral fable.
3. Ethics deals with moral conduct.
4. Oh, spare me your moral indignation.
5. His moral conduct is amply certificated.
2. It was so clearly a moral fable.
3. Ethics deals with moral conduct.
4. Oh, spare me your moral indignation.
5. His moral conduct is amply certificated.
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Meanings and Examples of MORAL
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moral
n. the significance of a story or event
a. psychological rather than physical or tangible in effect
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 Mrs. Merriwether felt that the South was heading for a complete moral collapse and frequently said so.
2 It was almost impossible to obtain these small luxuries now--ladies were wearing hand-whittled wooden hairpins and covering acorns with cloth for buttons--and Pitty lacked the moral stamina to refuse them.
3 Always remember, dear," Ellen had said, "you are responsible for the moral as well as the physical welfare of the darkies God has intrusted to your care.
4 After the complete moral collapse which had sent her to Atlanta and to Rhett, the appropriation of her sister's betrothed seemed a minor affair and one not to be bothered with at this time.
5 Words of moral indignation rose to her lips but suddenly she remembered the Yankee who lay under the tangle of scuppernong vines at Tara.
6 The moral effect was sufficient.
7 Oh, spare me your moral indignation.
8 But she made it possible for Pitty to keep her own comfortable establishment and Pitty was always swayed more by considerations of personal comfort than by moral issues.
9 Her personal fastidiousness had a moral equivalent, and when she made a tour of inspection in her own mind there were certain closed doors she did not open.
10 She's a perfect vulture, you know; and she hasn't the least moral sense.
11 As was always the case with her, this moral repulsion found a physical outlet in a quickened distaste for her surroundings.
12 Grace Stepney's mind was like a kind of moral fly-paper, to which the buzzing items of gossip were drawn by a fatal attraction, and where they hung fast in the toils of an inexorable memory.
13 The moral oppression had produced a physical craving for air, and he strode on, opening his lungs to the reverberating coldness of the night.
14 This was a relief to Mrs. Peniston, who could give herself up to her own symptoms, and Lily was advised to go and lie down, her aunt's panacea for all physical and moral disorders.
15 To characters like Gerty's such a sacrifice constitutes a moral claim on the part of the person in whose behalf it has been made.
Example Sentence: (69 in 5 pages)
1 Histories make men wise ; poems witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep ; moral grave ; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
2 It is an act of moral cowardice for a society to neglect its poor.
3 The article claims that an increase in crime indicates a decline in moral standards.
4 The Republicans took the moral high ground with the message that they were best equipped to manage the authority.
5 It has become fashionable to do down traditional moral values.
6 The book places a high moral value on marriage and the family unit.
7 The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
8 Throughout life, we rely on small groups of people for love, admira-tion, respect, moral support, and help.
9 He brandished the moral force of government as his weapon.
10 The moral offen - sive remarks in the book had to be expurgated before it could be printed.
11 British newspapers were full of moral outrage at the weakness of other countries.
12 It was so clearly a moral fable.
13 I have an ethical and a moral obligation to my client.
14 Ethics deals with moral conduct.
15 His moral conduct is amply certificated.