How to Use maxim in a Sentence

maxim

noun

• That maxim is proven once again in a two-minute video shared by the .
  — Melissa Locker, Time, 3 Mar. 2020
• On the strategic side, two maxims stand out above the rest.
  — Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 6 July 2019
• But a beetle the size of a grain of sand flips this maxim on its head.
  — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 21 Mar. 2022
• After all, as the old maxim goes, the best cure for high prices is high prices.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 23 Oct. 2023
• So in this new-age era of AI, the old maxim still applies: Garbage in, garbage out.
  — Barb Darrow, Fortune, 18 July 2017
• One of his maxims is that managers should not aim to be liked.
  — Bylila MacLellan, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2023
• All the stories stress the maxim that our species must adapt or perish.
  — Washington Post, 10 May 2021
• This maxim was quoted on the arrest of Richard II in 1399.
  — Alex Story, National Review, 4 Dec. 2021
• Quintero said his tech skills are proof enough of the maxim that old dogs can learn new tricks.
  — Ambar Castillo, STAT, 24 Mar. 2023
• So why not give the pod a listen and the maxim a try to boost your summer’s success rate?
  — Pablo Goldstein, Vulture, 1 July 2021
• The players just need to follow a simple maxim: Do what Tom Brady says.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2023
• There's simply no such thing as too many red dresses. Leave it to Jennifer Lopez to put that maxim to the test.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 Apr. 2022
• The Clippers, who have struggled to close out games for most of April, have followed the coaching maxim of bend, don’t break.
  — Bill Oram, Orange County Register, 12 Apr. 2017
• One other thing: There’s an old maxim that for greatness to emerge, there must be a crisis.
  — George Skelton, latimes.com, 24 June 2019
• This was the maxim that guided the design process for Oliver's apartment.
  — Mackenzie Schmidt, PEOPLE.com, 12 July 2022
• In the mid-Nineties, fast ten, slow twenty seemed like a maxim to help me eke out some autonomy.
  — Mitchell S. Jackson, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
• Chinos One of the maxims in menswear is that chinos are really just beat-up khakis.
  — Christian Gollayan, Men's Health, 6 Mar. 2023
• But the old maxim has taken on a new and more plausible form today.
  — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2021
• One maxim of constitutional law is that what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
  — Cristian Farias, Daily Intelligencer, 20 Mar. 2018
• Upon hearing this, a certain basketball maxim came to mind: the best teams get the most bang for their buck.
  — Mat Issa, Forbes, 2 June 2022
• But the now eight-year-old maxim has its serious downsides.
  — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 30 June 2019
• Statham doesn't speak in much of it, in a movie that operates under the maxim leave no bullet unfired.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 6 May 2021
• The Saints and other teams are about to put that maxim to the test, but in the case of Bridgewater and Brissett, there seems to be a path to sustainable success.
  — John Clayton, The Denver Post, 24 Sep. 2019
• Investors trying to get in on the Nvidia hype now, for example, aren’t following the maxim to buy low and sell high.
  — Beth Greenfield, Fortune, 1 July 2024
• An old legal maxim comes to mind: De minimis non curat lex — the law doesn’t care about trifles.
  — New York Times, 14 Jan. 2020
• In financial terms, Hume’s work lay behind the maxim that past performance is not a guide to the future.
  — Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 June 2023
• War of the Chosen, the game's first and likely last full expansion, deals with that problem with a simple maxim: more is more.
  — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 6 Sep. 2017
• So ingrained is this maxim that most lay people can recite it.
  — Danny Cevallos, CNN, 8 June 2017
• Abu Hamdan challenges a maxim forced onto the marginalized: that their voices are a source of power.
  — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 2 Aug. 2024
• Or rather, the whole effort is animated by the Reagan-era maxim that personnel is policy, that power flows from having the right people in the right jobs.
  — Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 1 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024