How to Use societal in a Sentence

societal

adjective

• The horror genre can be a handy metaphor for all sorts of societal ills.
  — Dallas News, 22 Feb. 2023
• The last time a gadget raised these sorts of societal questions was in 2013 with Google Glass.
  — Geoffrey A. Fowler, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2024
• Vance said the issue is a societal one that has been ingrained for at least 50 years.
  — Breccan F. Thies, Washington Examiner, 6 Oct. 2023
• Bass, in her speech, said there is societal cost to leaving people on the street.
  — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024
• The third looks at the tumbling global birthrate and hard societal choices ahead.
  — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Apr. 2024
• Learning to feel good about your body can be a long, hard slog, and so many of the obstacles that stand in the way are societal.
  — New York Times, 17 June 2022
• But in spite of the emotions or societal pressures to keep silent, Schumer revealed that the PA spoke up right away.
  — William Earl, Variety, 2 May 2024
• Gregg Popovich has been unafraid to call for societal change.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2022
• Goldfarb: Julia was a great way to talk about all these societal changes taking place in the ’60s.
  — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 21 Dec. 2023
• But like many a flip statement that strikes a deep societal nerve, the toast comment took off for a reason.
  — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2024
• Media outlets fanned the flames of fear with tales of bad trips and societal breakdown.
  — Milan Kordestani, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2024
• This will not solve any of the economic and societal problems that this study outlines.
  — Mira Cheng, CNN, 20 Mar. 2024
• There is no hiding from the societal shame of Pecola’s story.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• In the last few years, racing is not just for a certain niche group of people, but a societal and cultural event.
  — Monique Wilson, Glamour, 31 Dec. 2024
• The societal make-up of Sweden has changed dramatically since the City Hall was built 100 years ago.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 14 Nov. 2023
• But in Chicago, like the rest of the country, trees are tied to deeper societal problems involving race and class.
  — Joe Mahr, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2022
• There’s a whole host of societal and economic forces that conspire to maintain the status quo.
  — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Mar. 2023
• So don’t be pushed around by societal narratives of what the ultimate good looks like.
  — Sigal Samuel, Vox, 3 Nov. 2024
• Plenty of women deal with it, and there are a lot of societal standards for what is a beautiful size on a woman.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 9 Nov. 2022
• That inclination to turn away, of course, is one of the reasons that many of these societal problems endure.
  — Joan Gaylord, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Oct. 2022
• The genre has been targeted and blamed for societal ills since its inception.
  — Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 13 May 2022
• Tea eventually spread to the societal elite, and finally to the masses.
  — Megan Zhang, Saveur, 13 Sep. 2023
• Some lament this as a symptom of societal decline; others celebrate it as a mark of progress.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2022
• Reason for Ranking: Can an episode that ends with societal collapse be sweet?
  — Joshua Kurp, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024
• Observers say that societal changes are making the cycle worse.
  — Gaya Gupta, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
• As Baby Boomers continue to age out of the skilled trades, the lack of a societal back-up plan is becoming more apparent.
  — Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 10 June 2022
• Ebel responds to the societal pressure to conform to white standards of beauty by rebelling against them.
  — Juliana Kasumu, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2022
• That idea of feeling stuck, of not being able to have an impact, can be applied to so many societal issues — but perhaps this one most of all.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 June 2024
• At the start of any relationship, people tend to conform to societal norms.
  — Stephanie H. Murray, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2022
• Some audiences saw this as a warning, linking the societal shifts and movements of people aligned with the left as dangerous and uncouth.
  — Jude Reid, IndieWire, 26 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Jan 2025