How to Use aphorism in a Sentence

aphorism

noun

• The priest at first offers her pleasantries and aphorisms about dealing with suffering, but after listening to her agony, his affect changes.
  — Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 11 May 2024
• Of the many lessons from the massive struggles of the 19th and 20th centuries, this aphorism nears the top of the list.
  — Aron Ravin, National Review, 16 June 2021
• This isn’t the exact sequence in which the aphorisms flowed.
  — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 9 June 2017
• In a battle of aphorisms, the Need for Speed seems to be trumping Speed Kills.
  — Jo Craven McGinty, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2018
• What a lot of people don't know is that that's only half the aphorism.
  — Sarah Vitak, Scientific American, 15 Mar. 2022
• Doc Rivers popularized the aphorism that the NBA is a make-or-miss league.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2023
• The oldest thought, the thought that for the first time felt no need to be presented as a story, took the form of aphorisms on hunting.
  — Roberto Calasso, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
• Just as the old aphorism predicted, March came in like a lion.
  — Nestor Ramos, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Mar. 2018
• If the aphorism is true that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, then Dave Terrazas believes the way to a student’s brain runs along the same route.
  — San Antonio Express-News, 30 Mar. 2021
• Leap and the net will appear - what a broad and unhelpful aphorism thrown in the face of single women in their 30s and 40s the world over, the play suggests.
  — Wei-Huan Chen, Houston Chronicle, 15 Feb. 2018
• Sondheim’s lyrics and Lapine’s book are full of dozens, maybe hundreds, more aphorisms where that one came from, of course.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 1 July 2023
• There’s an old aphorism about writing that goes: Real writers write with the mind, not with the fingers.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 9 May 2016
• For the most part, this was an aphorism earnestly accepted as a statement of good faith.
  — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2019
• The Italians have a classic aphorism: Se non è vero, è ben trovato.
  — Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Sep. 2023
• Celebs have surely taken the aphorism to heart this summer.
  — André-Naquian Wheeler, Vogue, 1 Sep. 2022
• Not much, although there’s not an NFL agent who would disagree with the rising-tide-lifts-all-boats aphorism.
  — Joseph Person, charlotteobserver, 24 June 2017
• To adapt a famous aphorism, your freedom to spray forth a fog of disease particles ends at the tip of my nose.
  — Ryan Cooper, TheWeek, 2 July 2020
• There’s an aphorism in journalism (attributed to Jesse Lynch Williams) that when a dog bites a man, that’s not news.
  — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Mar. 2022
• Ismay formulated that aphorism at the height of a new Cold War.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 5 July 2017
• As an old tech-industry aphorism puts it, email is the cockroach of the internet.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 2 Aug. 2019
• In a single letter, Walpole might wander from war to weddings to art and anecdote and aphorism.
  — Catherine Ostler, WSJ, 15 Apr. 2022
• This statement graces old books of aphorisms and is engraved on more than one public-school building.
  — Scott Drylie, National Review, 7 Apr. 2023
• The aphorism weighs heavily on those trained to study the behaviors and achievements of past cultures.
  — Steve Helber, National Geographic, 29 June 2020
• There are endless aphorisms about love and dating that get branded into our brains from a very young age.
  — Maria Sherman, Glamour, 20 July 2017
• Indeed, to spend a day with Fred Ernesti is akin to taking a post-graduate course in the classics with a dose of aphorisms for good measure.
  — Thomas Farragher, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Mar. 2018
• The value of her music doesn’t come down to whether her lyrics land like sacred mantras or quote-a-day calendar aphorisms.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2020
• One of the things that happens in the aphorism is that the chalices are drained, which again raises the question of: who was supposed to drink it originally?
  — Joe Fassler, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2016
• The bulk of my inspiration comes directly from the aphorisms or meanings of the adinkra symbols.
  — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 14 Dec. 2023
• And while your fireplace might be the prime spot to cozy up, hearth and home (to borrow an old aphorism) obviously go hand-in-hand as far as decor is concerned.
  — Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor, 9 Nov. 2022
• Some scientists took a more sanguine view, spouting an aphorism that was heard often in 2005: Dead birds don’t fly.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 9 May 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024