How to Use zeitgeist in a Sentence

zeitgeist

noun

• His songs perfectly captured the zeitgeist of 1960s America.
• Then there’s the zeitgeist, which seems to be on the side of the 1970s.
  — Tanya Dukes, Robb Report, 6 Nov. 2021
• This story has stayed sort of in and out of the zeitgeist over the past 30 years.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2024
• At the same time, the ad’s narrative captures the zeitgeist of the times.
  — Cassie Werber, Quartz, 16 Jan. 2023
• Don’t mistake this decade’s poll for a mere shift in the zeitgeist.
  — Armond White, National Review, 7 Dec. 2022
• De Waal’s own work with chimpanzees in the 1980s loaned the term alpha male to the zeitgeist.
  — Rebecca Giggs, The Atlantic, 6 May 2022
• In the short term, what does the company have in store to build off the Olympic zeitgeist?
  — Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 18 Aug. 2024
• It’s about catching the zeitgeist and finding the right time.
  — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 20 Apr. 2021
• The dark side of corporate office life seem to be in the zeitgeist.
  — Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 June 2022
• The traps became the franchise, at least in the culture zeitgeist.
  — Emily Palmer Heller, Vulture, 14 May 2021
• With Baz Luhrmann's biopic hitting theaters, the king of rock 'n' roll is back in the zeitgeist.
  — Marykate Boylan, Town & Country, 3 July 2022
• And bubble hems are the latest trend to reach 2023’s style zeitgeist.
  — Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 8 Mar. 2023
• Most of the stuff that’s happening is not the mainstream zeitgeist at all.
  — Sumeet Kulkarni, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2022
• In short: The idea of ethics reform for the high court has penetrated the zeitgeist.
  — Simon Lazarus, The New Republic, 16 Mar. 2023
• Now, the air fryer holds a coveted spot in the kitchen zeitgeist.
  — Curtis Silver, Forbes, 22 June 2021
• And many of those DLSS-compatible games have long since passed in and out of the gamer zeitgeist.
  — Chris Stobing, PCMAG, 30 Mar. 2022
• The current zeitgeist is full of celebrity-run brands, and from time to time, there are always some that hit it out of the park.
  — Ali Faccenda, Peoplemag, 20 Sep. 2024
• The stories at Netflix are second-to-none, and brands are eager to be a part of that zeitgeist.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Oct. 2023
• In the wake of the pandemic and in the midst of the Great Resignation, nightlife has bounced back with a vengeance, and rave culture is in the zeitgeist.
  — Cassidy George, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
• The simplest reason seems to be that podcasts — as Rosenthal notes — are part of the zeitgeist.
  — Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2022
• Between the two films, the couple is suddenly very much back in the zeitgeist.
  — Kirsten Chuba, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2022
• The result wasn’t just success—the brand quickly entered the zeitgeist.
  — Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Sep. 2023
• Alessandro Michele changed the zeitgeist with his take on Gucci 3.0.
  — Bridget Foley, WWD, 27 Sep. 2024
• And anything gay in the zeitgeist has the potential to become politicized, then and now.
  — Dan Heching, CNN, 16 July 2023
• Forty years ago, a series with an on-the-rise soap actor and a campy premise barreled into the zeitgeist.
  — Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Oct. 2022
• But then, Poppy has long been a diviner of the zeitgeist.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Sep. 2021
• Since at least the 1920s, brands have steered our cultural zeitgeist.
  — Alain Sylvain, Quartz, 6 Dec. 2021
• There was just something in the zeitgeist that people were craving.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 5 May 2022
• If anything, the latest Murphy projects feel like lagging indicators of the broader zeitgeist.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 4 Oct. 2024
• Gladwell acknowledges that a word already exists for the social version of this—zeitgeist, the set of collective assumptions and worldviews that can hover above an entire culture or country.
  — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024