How to Use aphorism in a Sentence
aphorism
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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
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This isn’t the exact sequence in which the aphorisms flowed.
—James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 9 June 2017
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In a battle of aphorisms, the Need for Speed seems to be trumping Speed Kills.
—Jo Craven McGinty, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2018
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What a lot of people don't know is that that's only half the aphorism.
—Sarah Vitak, Scientific American, 15 Mar. 2022
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Doc Rivers popularized the aphorism that the NBA is a make-or-miss league.
—Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2023
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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
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Just as the old aphorism predicted, March came in like a lion.
—Nestor Ramos, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Mar. 2018
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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
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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
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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
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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
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For the most part, this was an aphorism earnestly accepted as a statement of good faith.
—Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2019
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The Italians have a classic aphorism: Se non è vero, è ben trovato.
—Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Sep. 2023
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Celebs have surely taken the aphorism to heart this summer.
—André-Naquian Wheeler, Vogue, 1 Sep. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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Ismay formulated that aphorism at the height of a new Cold War.
—Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 5 July 2017
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As an old tech-industry aphorism puts it, email is the cockroach of the internet.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 2 Aug. 2019
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In a single letter, Walpole might wander from war to weddings to art and anecdote and aphorism.
—Catherine Ostler, WSJ, 15 Apr. 2022
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This statement graces old books of aphorisms and is engraved on more than one public-school building.
—Scott Drylie, National Review, 7 Apr. 2023
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The aphorism weighs heavily on those trained to study the behaviors and achievements of past cultures.
—Steve Helber, National Geographic, 29 June 2020
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The bulk of my inspiration comes directly from the aphorisms or meanings of the adinkra symbols.
—Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 14 Dec. 2023
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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
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Hirayama’s bond with Niko involves drolly abstract aphorisms but no questions about specifics, whether past, present, or future.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
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Pundits and politicians, supporters as well as critics, have encapsulated this problem with a clever aphorism: This is the bridge that divides.
—Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2023
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