How to Use virtue in a Sentence

virtue

noun

• The Saints have the tiebreaker edge on McGill by virtue of their head-to-head win.
  — Ben Thomas | [e-mail], al, 11 Oct. 2022
• The boys, by virtue of their mother, belonged to the Hoh Tribe.
  — Nina Shapiro, The Seattle Times, 20 Sep. 2017
• There’s no clock in tennis, which is one of the sport’s great virtues.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 2 July 2018
• The point is that the Rock is a star whose chief virtue is constancy.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2022
• Utahns loved the show, even though the characters were not paragons of virtue.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Aug. 2022
• But there are other virtues for Trump in a midterm loss.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 31 July 2018
• And by virtue of their 3-1 head-to-head record against the Lakers, the Warriors own the tiebreaker.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2024
• John had many virtues, but patience was not one of them.
  — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 1 Sep. 2018
• Patience was a virtue for the past five years of team building.
  — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 21 June 2024
• There’s virtue in it, but there’s also oil and soy sauce.
  — David Walters, Bon Appetit, 24 Jan. 2017
• Is Iron Clad off the hook by virtue of that clause in its four and half-page contract?
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2021
• Extolling the many, many virtues of the home opener just doesn’t quite feel enough.
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 4 Apr. 2023
• The Orioles were awarded the top pick by virtue of a tiebreaker.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 16 July 2022
• The line between virtue and vice is a thin one, after all.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 16 Mar. 2018
• Yet Sebastian, the new amour, is no paragon of virtue or charm.
  — Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2021
• And Schiff preens, makes speeches about virtue and shows no shame.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 12 Dec. 2019
• There’s no virtue in making your own load heavier, just for the sake of it.
  — Claire Comstock-Gay, The Cut, 2 Apr. 2018
• The mom who posted the photo cloaked herself in virtue.
  — Julie Gunlock, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2020
• The vice president was asked to name three virtues about Trump.
  — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2024
• All high school stars are young just by virtue of being in high school.
  — Adam Lichtenstein, sun-sentinel.com, 23 Aug. 2019
• The man Ibsen gives us is a physician who equates facts with truth and truth with virtue.
  — Tony Adler, Chicago Reader, 28 Mar. 2018
• With a record of 6-0-3, the Current are in first place by virtue of goal difference.
  — Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 13 May 2024
• The three leads were supposed to be fathers on a quest to save their daughters’ virtue.
  — Allison P. Davis, The Cut, 1 Apr. 2018
• The Browns and Steelers are tied at 2-4, but the Browns are in third by virtue of their 1-0 division mark.
  — Kaylee Remington, cleveland, 23 Oct. 2022
• On that do-over third down, the Chiefs ended up getting the first down by virtue of a penalty.
  — Andrew Joseph, The Enquirer, 31 Jan. 2023
• Both pairs of parents may want to instill civic virtues in their child.
  — Jens Olav Dahlgaard, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2018
• Wirth has been extolling the virtues of the Lone Star State’s business climate for at least half a decade.
  — Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 2 Aug. 2024
• Messier is the even-money favorite by virtue of winning the Robert B. Lewis Stakes by 15 lengths.
  — John Cherwaspecial Contributor, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2022
• Apple, Google and Meta all make a virtue of their own lack of access to user content.
  — Zak Doffman, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
• The goal of extolling the Six Triple Eight’s virtues renders the film’s narrative an incidental element.
  — Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 6 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Dec 2024