How to Use adage in a Sentence

adage

noun

• Moving at a glacial pace isn’t an adage that works anymore.
  — Heather Hansman, Outside Online, 23 Oct. 2019
• With Brown joining the team, one of these two adages will win out over the other.
  — Andrew Brandt, SI.com, 17 Sep. 2019
• The lyrics echo the adage that the divorce happens long before the divorce.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2024
• The old coaching adage is that teams improve most between the first and second games.
  — oregonlive, 31 Aug. 2019
• As the old advertising adage goes, no one likes to be sold to, but everyone likes to buy.
  — Natasha Frost, Quartzy, 30 Oct. 2019
• Company taskmasters may yet grow fond of an adapted adage: mens sana in corporate sano.
  — The Economist, 9 Nov. 2019
• May is, after all, according to the traders’ adage, the month where investors are supposed to go, and stay, away.
  — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2019
• The old adage that productivity plummets as hours accumulate is well known.
  — Curt Steinhorst, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
• Up against a noisy ecosystem of fad diets and a complex array of nutrition science, a new group hopes to bring fresh meaning and substance to that age-old adage.
  — Chase Purdy, Quartz, 25 Aug. 2019
• There’s an old adage in the newspaper business, that each response from a reader means there are hundreds of people who feel the same way but haven’t taken the time to write.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 16 Nov. 2019
• The adage of an empire on which the sun never sets still applies to the French Republic, with small possessions across the planet.
  — Brady Knox, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 9 Oct. 2024
• There’s a truism in tech-industry investing that parallels the adage about a waddling creature that walks and quacks like a duck very likely being one.
  — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 10 Dec. 2019
• In that situation—either getting cold, tired people to climb a mountain, or doing something about global warming—a good adage is to do something.
  — Tim Jarvis, Quartz, 23 Aug. 2019
• No matter how careful your calculations, your turkey will inevitably compete with a roomful of side dishes, too many too-tasty appetizers, and some adage about saving room for dessert.
  — Alma Avalle, Bon Appétit, 28 Oct. 2024
• As the adage goes, the best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago.
  — Camille Bromley, WIRED, 1 July 2024
• But as the old adage says, heavy is the head that wears it.
  — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 10 Oct. 2022
• The misery of the bed-maker is kind of the whole point of the adage.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2022
• As the adage goes, there's more than one way to skin a cat.
  — Heather Wishart-Smith, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
• But the adage held true Monday, much to the chagrin of the Cougars.
  — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Mar. 2022
• There's an old adage which goes: When the cat's away, the mice will play.
  — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 6 July 2022
• And there’s an age-old adage: What is said at the shop, stays at the shop.
  — NBC News, 29 Apr. 2020
• The old adage is that turnovers tend to come in bunches.
  — John Owning, Dallas News, 30 Dec. 2020
• The old adage remains true that the dose makes the poison.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 7 Dec. 2021
• But as the adage goes, to be heard is not to be heeded.
  — Timothy R. Clark, Forbes, 21 June 2021
• In this case, the adage still rings true—good things come to those who wait.
  — Halee Miller Van Ryswyk, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Oct. 2024
• The old adage is true, that the buck stops at the president’s desk.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2020
• And there's that adage about not wanting to see how the sausage gets made.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 7 June 2021
• Many will follow the adage not to fight the central bank.
  — Anna Hirtenstein, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2022
• The Rams will have a full week to reflect on that adage from their coach.
  — Adam Grosbard, Orange County Register, 6 Oct. 2024
• That adage about how a film is made three times — on the page, on the set and in the edit — is true.
  — Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024