How to Use precept in a Sentence

precept

noun

• I was taught by precept and by example.
• The song mattered more than the author, a pop precept more than a rock one.
  — Michaelangelo Matos, Rolling Stone, 24 Aug. 2022
• My father called his hair a crown, his locks a mane, his beard a precept.
  — Safiya Sinclair, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• Not feeding the trolls is one of the first and most important precepts of our current era.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 1 June 2017
• Those sharp eyes also kept watch at home, which was strict and faith-filled in following the precepts of the Catholic Church.
  — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Apr. 2024
• As teenage boys are wont to do, Reuven and Danny question and challenge many of their elders' precepts.
  — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 28 Feb. 2024
• Anything that challenges that precept must be put down.
  — Charles M. Blow New York Times, Star Tribune, 8 Mar. 2021
• Some argue that there are five, six, seven, or more precepts that belong in the doctrine.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
• These strategic precepts first failed to prevent, and then prolonged, World War II.
  — Alexander Cooley, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
• The Democrats’ guiding strategic precept is: Never let a crisis go to waste.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 14 Aug. 2020
• Its precepts are hard to find in the writings of thinkers such as Niccolò Machiavelli and Carl von Clausewitz.
  — Carter Malkasian, Foreign Affairs, 20 Sep. 2024
• Those are some of the downtown precepts that haven’t taken as easily.
  — Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2017
• The precepts laid down there form the foundations of the medical philosophies that shape our health care today.
  — Jordan Kisner, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2020
• Trump once again threatens to upend the precepts of the U.S. political system and test the foundations of the country’s rule of law.
  — Tessa Berenson Rogers, TIME, 30 May 2024
• Likewise, the precept that large monuments and tombs are always proof of systems of rank comes up for review.
  — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 11 July 2022
• Their precepts have been followed by people as diverse as Daniel Boone and Gauguin.
  — Will Stephenson, Harper's Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
• From the importance of lids to picking the best fragrance for every room in your house, here, Raza shares the four simple precepts on how to burn a candle like a grown-up.
  — Mackenzie Wagoner, Vogue, 9 Jan. 2018
• All of those precepts sent Google's workforce into full tilt after the travel ban was announced.
  — Nitasha Tiku, WIRED, 13 Aug. 2019
• Citing the Buddhist precept of non-violence, Gaitok owns up to not having a killer instinct.
  — Dan Heching, CNN Money, 31 Mar. 2025
• One of her core precepts is to go on an artist’s date, a solo excursion to experience new things.
  — Janine MacLachlan, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
• Role is: To provide offensive juice on a nightly basis within the team precepts, and, more than anything, to show up.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 13 July 2024
• This is helpful when many of the precepts of elite opinion have been so dominant as to go largely unnoticed.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 3 Jan. 2017
• This is helpful when many of the precepts of elite opinion have been so dominant as to go largely unnoticed.
  — T.a. Frank, The Hive, 3 Jan. 2017
• The precept that wars make states make constitutions held elsewhere.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2021
• By conforming them to the precepts of reality TV, the show does not live up to its stars’ actual weirdness.
  — Peter Tonguette, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Mar. 2025
• The basic precept of the best-in-breed concept is to look at clouds and third parties as simply collections of services that can be mixed and matched as an app team's needs dictate.
  — Kit Colbert, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2021
• The report found that Taliban judges were well trained and drew on cultural norms and common sense, not just Islamic precepts.
  — Pamela Constable, Washington Post, 21 June 2018
• Kelsey Grammer: What Chuck did went back to one of the basic precepts of Christianity, which is inclusion.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2023
• Welcoming the stranger, or immigrant, is thus a central precept of their faith practices.
  — Sarah Ventre, NPR, 11 Feb. 2025
• Health workers, deeply invested in the precepts of social medicine, are sure to resist Milei’s attempts at health reform.
  — Eric D. Carter, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2023