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
• Calvin helped define the zeitgeist of the New York ’90s.
  — Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 22 Dec. 2018
• 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
• But none of them have quite captured the zeitgeist in the way that Game of Thrones did.
  — Adam Epstein, Quartz, 3 Nov. 2019
• 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
• To be mentioned on that show means that our show is in the zeitgeist.
  — Patrick Crowley, Billboard, 18 May 2018
• 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
• Now even Mordhau's come and gone from the zeitgeist, so…we'll see.
  — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 10 June 2020
• Add in the wine zeitgeist, with drinkers craving more than soft, fruity reds and whites.
  — Bloomberg.com, 30 Mar. 2018
• The dark side of corporate office life seem to be in the zeitgeist.
  — Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 June 2022
• Despite that, The Warriors went on to find a place in the pop culture zeitgeist in the decades since.
  — Rachel Raposas, People.com, 28 Oct. 2024
• 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
• The zeitgeist is a slippery thing to cling to; no one knows that better than a pop star.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 24 Aug. 2020
• 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
• Artists have a unique way of tapping into the zeitgeist and getting right to the heart of the matter.
  — Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 4 Dec. 2024
• The stars aligned for actual plays to rise in the 2010s, owed to a zeitgeist where geek became chic.
  — Eric Francisco, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2025
• In short: The idea of ethics reform for the high court has penetrated the zeitgeist.
  — Simon Lazarus, The New Republic, 16 Mar. 2023
• The project made millions and went on to become one of the most popular teen movies in the zeitgeist.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 26 June 2020
• All the while, Trump is trying to keep in touch with the cultural zeitgeist.
  — Philip Rucker and Robert Costa, chicagotribune.com, 1 Apr. 2018
• The shift in the book club’s tastes was a reaction to the anxious zeitgeist, says one of its members.
  — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2020
• Now, the air fryer holds a coveted spot in the kitchen zeitgeist.
  — Curtis Silver, Forbes, 22 June 2021
• In the end, it was not properly designed and failed to function as a way to gauge what’s in the zeitgeist.
  — Belabbes Benkredda, Quartz, 21 June 2019
• And many of those DLSS-compatible games have long since passed in and out of the gamer zeitgeist.
  — Chris Stobing, PCMAG, 30 Mar. 2022
• Both groups tend to target something in the zeitgeist, but unlike hate-watchers, anti-fans tend to construct something new out of their annoyance or contempt.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2025