How to Use the way/ways of the world in a Sentence

the way/ways of the world

noun phrase

• His daughter wasn’t well versed in the ways of the world.
  — Kerry Howley, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2022
• Some people have fangs and like to bite other people—that’s the way of the world.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
• This is simply the way of the world in college football’s new wild, wild west.
  — Mike Bianchi, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Nov. 2021
• What remains out of grasp is the not knowing, the wondrous ignorance about the ways of the world.
  — Hazlitt, 12 Dec. 2022
• Did Cruise himself recognize that this would become the way of the world?
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 May 2021
• Yes, use technology, because that's the way of the world now.
  — Charles G. Thompson, Wired, 18 Sep. 2021
• After all, the way of the world is that children sit shiva for parents, not the reverse.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 26 Oct. 2020
• The day came, however, for the son to learn the ways of the world, and his father gave him that part of his education.
  — Caren Schnur Neile, Sun Sentinel, 19 Sep. 2022
• But Jünger—like the narrator and his brother in the novel—faced the facts with equanimity: such was the way of the world.
  — Thomas Meaney, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023
• Standing in line for beer is the way of the world these days, but in 2005, when craft beer was struggling and more breweries were closing than opening, the thought was ludicrous.
  — Adam Lukach, chicagotribune.com, 4 Mar. 2022
• What’s fascinating about all this is the world had become a place where big bully countries no longer could subsume their neighbors that had bed the way of the world for a long time.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 2 Mar. 2022
• The pandemic has redefined the way of the world, and even brick-and-mortar businesses have found an audience online.
  — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 25 May 2022
• The two fostered a relatable brotherly chemistry; as Wally, Dow helped younger brother Beaver understand the ways of the world and charmed viewers with memorable one-liners.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2022
• Such is the way of the world, civilizations and cultures rise and fall, a fact reiterated repeatedly in The Lost History of Christianity.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2010
• Dutiful sons often revere their fathers for their instruction in the ways of the world—by direction and indirection, sterling example and train wreck.
  — Edward Kosner, WSJ, 5 May 2022

Last Updated: 5 Dec 2024