How to Use espouse in a Sentence

espouse

verb
  • The new theory has been espoused by many leading physicists.
  • Those espousing unpopular views were often excluded.
  • Adherents of the alt-right have been known to espouse racist, anti-Semitic and sexist points of view.
    Robert Costa, The Seattle Times, 21 Aug. 2018
  • Whatever the tactics espoused achieve for some may well exact profound losses for all.
    Bill Keane, Hartford Courant, 25 Nov. 2024
  • This wasn’t a social-media discovery; nasal breathing was espoused by the ancients.
    Matt Fuchs, TIME, 22 Nov. 2024
  • This was in many ways an old-fashioned Senate floor speech espousing ideas about governance that obviously strike many today as old-fashioned.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2018
  • In this last election, many voters sided with a far different vision for America than the one espoused by Mr. Biden.
    Hunter Woodall, CBS News, 25 Nov. 2024
  • As the company grew, Lauren was criticized for espousing elite aspirations, given his middle-class origins.
    Christina Binkley, WSJ, 7 Nov. 2018
  • Democrats and pro-choice groups have widely espoused the idea of court packing in the months since the fall of Roe v. Wade.
    Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 14 May 2023
  • Politicians need to stop cozying up to those who espouse it.
    Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Revelations about the work of great painters to espouse.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The president’s swipe across the aisle is likely a preface for the kind of rhetoric Democrats will espouse on the campaign trail in the coming months.
    Alisa Wiersema, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Most espouse traditional views about the role of women and the sexes.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The Lummis-Gillibrand bill appears to espouse that view, much to the crypto crowd’s delight.
    Wired, 6 July 2022
  • Practical types espouse the joys of a pale-blue surgical mask as a...
    Katharine K. Zarrella and Sara Bosworth, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2020
  • Members of the group are known to espouse white supremacist rhetoric.
    Quinn Owen, ABC News, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Benz, in his public posts and appearances, has not espoused the same racist views as Frame Game.
    Brandy Zadrozny, NBC News, 6 Oct. 2023
  • While he was cleared of charges of heresy, he was instructed to no longer espouse the theory.
    Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 19 June 2023
  • The letter, meant to be satirical, espoused the use of sunshine over candles.
    Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 7 Mar. 2020
  • Most male players to this day seldom exceed 4⅝ and some even espouse gripping down to 4½.
    Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2022
  • There’s no hard data on how many Christians espouse QAnon.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Aug. 2020
  • But these killings galvanized backlash from those who felt that the time for the pacifism that Martin Luther King, Jr., espoused had passed.
    Rachel Kleinfeld, Foreign Affairs, 19 July 2024
  • Thompson said China can't espouse one thing then act in the opposite way.
    Brad Lendon, CNN, 25 Oct. 2021
  • There are many theories for the purpose of these stones, but traveling through time was not one espoused by our guide.
    Deborah Doyle, National Geographic, 8 Apr. 2019
  • Even folks who make a living beautifying homes espouse the virtues of the laundry chair.
    Rachel Kurzius, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Biles has found that younger Gen Zers, and the youngest athletes, Gen Alpha, espouse a more balanced approach both to training and to any challenge.
    Byjane Thier, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The kind of optimism espoused by Andreessen leaves no room for questions, doubts, or debate.
    Rachyl Jones, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2023
  • But the protests are planned, and many who attend, appear to be linked to a small number of local groups that espouse anti-gay and transgender views.
    Dallas News, 26 Oct. 2022
  • His fans in academia, never keen on missing a lesson of the master, at times espoused a somewhat more tepid agreement.
    Hannah Gold, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Ours has been an organization with the courage to defend and espouse the cause of those less fortunate.
    Elaine Ayala, ExpressNews.com, 14 Sep. 2019

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