How to Use valence in a Sentence

valence

noun

• What does shift is the emotional valence of the scenes.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2021
• The care movement brings more to the table than good poll numbers and the moral valence of children, though.
  — Elliot Haspel, The New Republic, 26 Aug. 2021
• In On the Record’s later scenes, these comments take on a more rueful valence.
  — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 1 June 2020
• Thousands of Christians flocked to his events, where prayer and singing took on a new valence of defiance.
  — New York Times, 6 Apr. 2022
• For most people, the term evokes a strong negative valence.
  — Robert H. Frank, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2017
• For starters, don’t assign a moral valence to staying in the bathroom for too long, cautioned Eyal, the author and lecturer.
  — Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2022
• Out of all of that, somehow, comes the idea that trying not to get sick has some sort of suspicious political and moral valence.
  — Addison Del Mastro, The Week, 16 Feb. 2022
• These results show the amygdala is central to determining the valence of tastes.
  — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 30 May 2018
• The Javelin has taken on a symbolic valence in pro-Ukraine online chatter.
  — Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2022
• But what's an extra 20 interviews if each one helps a pal make a buck, or tens of thousands of them, or helps to build a carpeted stairway to the next valence of fame?
  — Brennan Kilbane, Allure, 23 Feb. 2023
• Twenty-seven percent of the words in that one sentence have a positive valence – even out of context.
  — Eli Amdur, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
• Next came 12 seconds to imagine that happening, and then 14 seconds to rate vividness and valence.
  — Alison Escalante, Forbes, 25 May 2021
• For his part, Butler noted that ardor itself has no moral valence.
  — Sam Adler-Bell, The New Republic, 3 Dec. 2021
• But its fixation on illness and death also gives it a darker valence.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2023
• But among its valences is that we are granted permissions that adult women rarely receive.
  — Zan Romanoff, Bon Appetit, 30 Dec. 2017
• Scraping the track data for each recording in Radiohead’s oeuvre gave Thompson a list of each song’s valence.
  — Joe Veix, Newsweek, 16 Mar. 2017
• Still, our method reveals the ability for marketers and academics to go beyond star ratings and beyond the valence of language.
  — Derek Rucker, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
• But their show will remind you that tenderness itself has a double valence: love, yes, but also pain.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 14 Apr. 2021
• According to valence bond theory, what is the hybridization of the central atom of methane?
  — Brian Whitehead, Orange County Register, 14 Feb. 2017
• But the baseball crowd’s spontaneous chants have a different valence.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 28 Oct. 2019
• But the deeper implication of that analysis is that a rhetorical shift won't be sufficient to change the valence of the issue.
  — Noah Millman, The Week, 25 June 2021
• Scenes that are topical one season can take on unexpected valences the next.
  — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2024
• Religious outreach has a much different valence for a person who is not free to make his or her own decisions.
  — Emma Green, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2017
• The violence of January 6th has become a touchstone for Biden, too, but with a different valence.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
• That kind of tedium and self-abasement, not to mention aches and intimacy with grime, have emotional valence to me.
  — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 20 Oct. 2020
• The prize bestowed in his name, this year awarded to Margaret Atwood, is for free speech, a concept whose political valence has shifted since his death.
  — Christian Lorentzen, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
• Our understanding of how the brain assigns valence still has important gaps.
  — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 7 Sep. 2022
• But the case titles themselves underscore the partisan valence of this dispute.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 3 Mar. 2021
• This time around, there was a different divide — both in terms of the people involved, as Bannon and McMaster are both gone, and the valence of the options under discussion.
  — Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 17 Apr. 2018
• The emotional valence of crushing is unmistakable; simply reversing the ad, as Reza Sixo Safai did, so that all the creative tools spring from the iPad immediately improves it.
  — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 9 May 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024