How to Use hearts and minds in a Sentence

hearts and minds

plural noun
  • Way to break stereotypes and win over hearts and minds!
    Jo Yurcaba, NBC News, 26 Oct. 2023
  • No amount of coal’s going to change their hearts and minds.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 23 Dec. 2023
  • There is no way to change hearts and minds of Republicans or the courts.
    Brynn Tannehill, The New Republic, 10 Apr. 2023
  • When people get to know trans people, hearts and minds change.
    Liz Elting, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
  • In Stille’s book, patients put their hearts and minds in Newton’s hands.
    Mattie Kahn, Town & Country, 13 June 2023
  • And so the war trudged on — thousands of miles away, but passionately waged in L.A.’s hearts and minds.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The Thinker, a fictional gay rapper in a blonde wig, has captured our hearts and minds.
    Samantha Allen, Them, 13 Aug. 2024
  • The last time UConn was here, during the middle of the five-wins-in-five-days miracle of 2011, has never ended in hearts and minds.
    Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2024
  • Israel will likely never be able to fully win hearts and minds in Gaza.
    Raphael S. Cohen, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2024
  • With engagement off the table, Mr. Xi has been left with few outlets to win hearts and minds on Taiwan.
    Paul Mozur, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2023
  • In the long term, the pro-life movement needs to change many more hearts and minds of Americans to win a long-lasting victory across the country.
    The Editors, National Review, 8 Nov. 2023
  • This is a battle for hearts and minds for Israel, not just a military battle.
    CBS News, 12 Nov. 2023
  • The conversation ends with hugs all around — and tears of joy for Isabel, who is relieved at her parents' open hearts and minds.
    Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Their Royal Highnesses hold all the victims, their families and their friends in their hearts and minds.
    Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 12 Oct. 2023
  • For seven seasons, millions of viewers were willing to open their hearts and minds to the idea that an autistic man could be a good doctor.
    Sarah Kurchak, TIME, 23 May 2024
  • When the goal is creating a character, human hearts and minds are the final judge instead.
    IEEE Spectrum, 6 Apr. 2023
  • He's also melted both hearts and minds crooning for cola as Lil' Sweet in a series of Dr. Pepper ads.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Naysayers and the gas industry are winning the public’s hearts and minds while destroying their health and safety.
    Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The fact that guy had the patience to also openly come into those conversations with us further opened our hearts and minds.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Supporting these aims requires open hearts and minds to engage, lobby, serve and stand with both sides and all who suffer in between.
    Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The whale, who stole hearts and minds in regular appearances along the coast of Norway, was found dead last weekend in the harbor of Stavanger, a city in the country’s southwest.
    Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 4 Sep. 2024
  • But this Australian squad have already won the battle for hearts and minds at home and go into the tournament with a sizzling momentum.
    Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 19 July 2023
  • The furies that Bradley manifests in wood and metal actually dwell in people’s hearts and minds.
    Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Bilingualism is the fastest way for empathy to immigrate into hearts and minds.
    Richard Morgan, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 June 2023
  • Leo's Tacos & Burritos Leo's birria burritos (both the lunch and breakfast versions) have won hearts and minds in Avondale.
    Felicia Campbell, The Arizona Republic, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Gains and losses are marked more by the tilts of the Maldives’ own politicians — more pro-India at some points, more pro-China at others — and, most of all, by the money that both sides spend to win Maldivian hearts and minds.
    Maahil Mohamed Elke Scholiers, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2024
  • How are President Zelensky and others in Ukraine using humor to win hearts and minds overseas?
    Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024
  • His attempt to sow doubt about Harris’ blackness, in front of a predominantly Black audience, didn’t appear to win hearts and minds.
    Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Watching a parent fight to survive such an insidious disease is an enormous weight for a child to carry on their shoulders—not to mention in their hearts and minds.
    Mia Taylor, Parents, 9 Apr. 2024
  • The reversal is in line with what has happened in many other creative industries as the party has intensified its control over the public’s hearts and minds.
    Li Yuan, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024

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