How to Use double standard in a Sentence

double standard

noun
  • She argued that society applies a double standard in dealing with women who commit adultery.
  • This shows that there is more than a double standard at play.
    Eugene Kontorovich, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2020
  • There’s a double standard, which sometimes is not discussed.
    NBC News, 24 Feb. 2020
  • Even when talking about the double standards women face, Klobuchar was constrained by them.
    Charlotte Alter, Time, 21 Nov. 2019
  • The latest example of this double standard is in Brazil.
    Dominic Pino, National Review, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Burks said county officials have acknowledged the data and are willing to make changes to eliminate the double standard.
    Tony Holt, Arkansas Online, 23 Nov. 2019
  • The ruling’s entire objective is to single out and apply a double standard against Israel.
    David Meyer, Fortune, 12 Nov. 2019
  • One of their favourite princelings indulges in such spectacular double standards quite transparently.
    Harish Pullanoor, Quartz India, 30 Dec. 2019
  • Cruz, unsurprisingly, has not responded to those calling out his double standard.
    Abby Gardner, Glamour, 18 Feb. 2020
  • Second, critics defend their own partisan double standard.
    Brian Riedl, National Review, 9 Jan. 2020
  • Other women are concerned that there’s a grammatical double standard for working women.
    Dave Murphy, SFChronicle.com, 21 Nov. 2019
  • The letter writer was very frustrated at the double standard her mother had regarding the giving and receiving of packages via the mail.
    cleveland, 22 Feb. 2020
  • Advice from the trail Trump and other candidates are likely frustrated by what feels like a double standard afflicting them for choosing to run for office.
    Max Thornberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 14 Sep. 2024
  • Anna Belkina, RT’s deputy editor in chief, said that the labels create a double standard.
    Ava Kofman, ProPublica, 22 Nov. 2019
  • After nearly 30 years in the liquor business, Camacho Santa Ana has seen double standards applied in both overt and subtle ways.
    Eric Velasco, al, 18 Nov. 2019
  • All-Star, who viewed the move as part of a double standard.
    Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 30 Dec. 2021
  • The bassist spoke to this instance and called it a double standard.
    Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 23 Jan. 2023
  • That seems like a double standard to many in the cannabis business.
    Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Apr. 2021
  • There's a double standard in a way that is not applied to men.
    Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Oct. 2020
  • Daly later says in the the recording that there is a double standard regarding the use of the racial slur.
    Jim Ayello, The Indianapolis Star, 26 June 2020
  • The sense of a double standard, once implanted, is hard to shake.
    Mark Landler, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2022
  • DeLong says this is an easy way for the state to limit its costs, and a double standard.
    Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 14 Oct. 2022
  • And the guy with the double standard is but one member of a great woke pandemic herd.
    John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 3 Mar. 2021
  • This has caused some to argue there is a double standard.
    W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner, 12 June 2020
  • Williams said that Bryant’s firing shows the double standard within the tech field.
    Tat Bellamy-Walker, NBC News, 24 Aug. 2022
  • For Frost, the hurried measures were the mark of a blatant double standard.
    Benjamin Mueller, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Nov. 2021
  • The allegations of double standards have truth to them, to a point.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2023
  • Five years ago in Rio de Janeiro, she was stunned when her bronze on beam was met with a shrug of the shoulders, proof of the double standard she is held to.
    Will Graves, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Is Fields the latest black quarterback to face the draft’s double standard?
    Matt Goul, cleveland, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Many are fuming at the racist double standard now set by the government.
    Hanna Kozlowska, The New Republic, 13 Apr. 2022

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