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.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• But if remote work becomes the norm, that double standard may fade.
  — Katie Johnston, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2022
• Marks called the move an unjust and unfair double standard.
  — Richard Fowler, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
• The double standard is almost as old as hip-hop itself.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2024
• If ever there was an example of the double standard, this is it.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 26 June 2023
• The team had planned for some time to ignore the rules this year in order highlight the double standard set for women athletes across the sports world.
  — Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 27 July 2021
• Some civil rights activists saw a racial double standard in the way the white gunman was treated.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Nov. 2021
• But critics have pointed to a double standard by France.
  — Elian Peltier, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2022
• Many called that an example of a racist double standard.
  — Juliana Kim, NPR, 31 Mar. 2024
• This is a double standard to which I’ve been subjected my entire time.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2021
• Because of their body and identity, some argued that Smith has been held to a double standard.
  — Christi Carrasstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2023
• Sha’Carri Richardson is calling out a double standard in Olympic sports.
  — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 15 Feb. 2022
• The general idea is that men get better with age (double standard?
  — Bernd Fischer, Men's Health, 19 Nov. 2022
• This is an example of a double standard at its most severe state.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2022
• Now voters like Safiya Ali, who lives in Greater Toronto, are calling out a double standard.
  — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Sep. 2021
• This nonsense is the very definition of a double standard, since men don’t have to worry about it.
  — Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 July 2021
• And the key thing to keep in mind here is that in both cases, there was a double standard in the law applied to crack cocaine versus powder cocaine.
  — Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2022
• Still, some critics argue that the IOC’s relative silence on Gaza represents a double standard.
  — Yasmeen Serhan, TIME, 18 July 2024
• But gun control activists say that ruling showed a double standard in favor of convicting Biden while ignoring the violation by the gun shop.
  — Nick Penzenstadler, USA TODAY, 26 June 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024