How to Use aegis in a Sentence

aegis

noun
  • For all the hate in the room that night, there was also an aegis of undiminished, undying love.
    — Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, GQ, 21 Aug. 2017
  • Dickens’s aegis, for the consolation of the stricken and the shamed.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2020
  • What Marty is forced to do to get back under Rockwell’s aegis is a jaw-dropper.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Now was once one of many large initiatives under the aegis of a single executive.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Its work, however, falls under the broader aegis of the White House chief of staff’s office.
    — Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Both projects fell under the aegis of Michaels’ Broadway Video production unit.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 3 Oct. 2021
  • All of this is under the aegis of free speech, organized as correcting for wokeness and cancel culture.
    — David Marchese, New York Times, 1 May 2022
  • Comedy stars of our age all gathered under the aegis of America’s greatest.
    — Shania Russell, EW.com, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Its lawyers threatened to sue Fontes, to keep Grayson and other down-ballot hopefuls from running under its aegis.
    — Sue Halpern, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Under his aegis the Marlins won their first World Series in 1997.
    — Greg Cote, miamiherald, 23 Mar. 2018
  • The effort came under the aegis of Project Roomkey, a statewide program to house people during the pandemic.
    — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2021
  • By all indications, Fred was a happy young mastodon, his welfare secured by a doting mother and the watchful aegis of his aunts.
    — Peter Brannen, The Atlantic, 22 June 2022
  • Part of the challenge, church officials say, is that the schools often fell under the aegis of local parishes and religious orders that kept their own records.
    — Dan Frosch, WSJ, 1 Jan. 2022
  • Under his aegis, Fox, once known for being reluctant to join the streaming wars, has moved more aggressively into them.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 15 Sep. 2025
  • This project about the Project, so to speak, was done under the aegis of the cultural nonprofit UrbanArts.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The 1970s saw huge new industrial projects in the region carried out under the aegis of the communist youth league.
    — The Economist, 21 Dec. 2019
  • Of the 250 years since the country’s founding, less than a quarter unfolded under the aegis of universal suffrage.
    — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 2 May 2026
  • Habermas started out under the aegis of the Frankfurt School, serving as Adorno’s assistant.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
  • Under the aegis of novelist and screenwriter David Nicholls, each installment takes on a different style and tone, too.
    — Sonia Saraiya, HWD, 9 May 2018
  • The old comrades would now co-sponsor a bus-tour road show of rallies under the aegis of her current group, Women for America First.
    — Adele M. Stan, The New Republic, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Under Kallstrom’s aegis, the New York office became known as Trumpland.
    — Craig Unger, The New Republic, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Most of the American foreign aid to Mexico is provided under the aegis of the initiative.
    — Gardiner Harris and Kirk Semple, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2017
  • A couple of other novels appeared under the aegis of Pantheon and Grove Atlantic and were rapidly allowed to fall out of print.
    — Siddhartha Deb, The New Republic, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Still, why hasn’t the DSO tried to hire the former music staff to assemble everyone under the aegis of the orchestra?
    — Dallas News, 11 May 2022
  • Developed under the aegis of Dover Street Market with the firm support of Joffe, her club-ready designs have proven to be a cult favorite.
    — Liam Hess, Vogue, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Backyard Worlds is operated under the aegis of the Zooniverse, a set of about 100 citizen science projects.
    — Jesse Emspak, Smithsonian, 28 Aug. 2017
  • Under the aegis of PortKC, the Port Authority of Kansas, the area has been transformed.
    — Kansas City Star, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Although the awards are given in the name of the city, and under the aegis of its Housing Commission, all the money involved is collected from private donations.
    — Lola Sherman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 June 2022
  • Van Noten’s brand will continue under the aegis of Spanish fashion and fragrance group Puig, which acquired the label in 2018.
    — Joelle Diderich, WWD, 23 June 2024
  • Kozack began his career at The Media Edge, a media buying agency under the aegis of WPP.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 27 Apr. 2026

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