How to Use discourse in a Sentence

discourse

1 of 2 noun
  • He likes to engage in lively discourse with his visitors.
  • She delivered an entertaining discourse on the current state of the film industry.
  • What is the best way to avoid the discourse?
    — Jason Jones, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Ah yes, age gap discourse, my old friend.
    — Ana Osorno, Them., 18 Sep. 2025
  • The need for more plus discourse goes all the way to the top.
    — Lindsay Schallon, Glamour, 26 Aug. 2019
  • The discourse grew so loud that Crowe has now chimed in.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 26 May 2026
  • Online fiber arts discourse is no place for the weak.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025
  • All that gets thrown out the window in a lot of the discourse.
    — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2022
  • And right on schedule, so does the discourse.
    — Eileen Kelly, Vogue, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Those plans have since been called off, but the discourse still loomed large over the shoot.
    — Alex Jhamb Burns, Vogue, 23 June 2026
  • Maron’s been the king of anxious discourse for decades.
    — Rachel Brodsky, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2026
  • The discourse is intense with this one.
    — Hannah Jocelyn, New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2026
  • There should be no place for this kind of hate in our public discourse.
    — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 9 Oct. 2022
  • Now, new research is adding to the discourse.
    — Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 16 Jan. 2026
  • But is the discourse missing the mark?
    — Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
  • There’s a lot of discourse about who the true villain is in this movie.
    — Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2026
  • Rosmarin says he's seen the discourse.
    — Charles Trepany, USA Today, 13 May 2026
  • The book seemed to break a dam in the royal public discourse.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Harry Styles is aware of the discourse around him.
    — Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 14 Mar. 2026
  • And the discourse in the country is very ugly across the board.
    — Fox News, 27 June 2018
  • But [the discourse] got caught up in whether or not a priest would ever lie on the stand.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 25 Apr. 2026
  • But all of these achievements were lost to the discourse around the Slap.
    — Joshua Rothkopf, EW.com, 5 Apr. 2022
  • There are thoughtful critiques of the show and the discourse around it to be made.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2021
  • Any discourse Wallen may have had seems to have been done out of public view.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 11 Aug. 2022
  • But there's less awareness or discourse about what happens when those kids grow up.
    — Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 24 Sep. 2025
  • And this is why the discourse on X and these types of things freak me out sometimes.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026
  • Yet even if the backlash to the backlash is overblown, the discourse is a strange sign of progress.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 16 June 2021
  • This is also a moment when our public discourse is loud and harsh.
    — refinery29.com, 21 May 2018
  • Some of the discourse focussed on the semiotics of a slap versus a punch.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2022
  • But alas, that is not the tone that has prevailed in the popular discourse.
    — Maria Konnikova, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2012

discourse

2 of 2 verb
  • She could discourse for hours on almost any subject.
  • Kiss or no kiss, Glen Powell is just happy fans care enough about Twisters to start discourse online.
    — Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Harassment, even if technically not against the law, is wrong and corrosive to discourse.
    — Arkansas Online, 6 Sep. 2020
  • And, of course, discourse about the current state of democracy certainly isn’t unique to Korea.
    — Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 26 Dec. 2024
  • That book opens with a group of Cambridge youths discoursing prettily on the existence of a cow on a riverbank.
    — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 30 Mar. 2018
  • The idea of the other is an idea that poisons discourse and creates a dangerous wedge throughout our communities.
    — Alli Rosenbloom, CNN, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Backed by a five-piece band, Janelle McDermoth discourses on life, death and the arguable usefulness of art.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2020
  • From the whitewashing controversy to the toxic love to the daring costumes, the discourse is going to be discoursing.
    — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, Refinery29, 13 Feb. 2026
  • In the audience plump dignitaries in bright orange turbans sat comfortably on white leather armchairs, discoursing on the spectacle.
    — The Economist, 25 Oct. 2019
  • This is utter nonsense, and discourse about practically any new game on the market has become so toxic that staying off the internet entirely is the only way avoid it.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
  • These attempts to discourse fictional characters to death were conducted in Character.
    — Elizabeth Minkel, WIRED, 28 Aug. 2023
  • But the current, forgive me, discourse about TikTok tends to use the app’s notoriety as a meme machine to belittle its more vital aspects .
    — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Those qualities reflected not just in the appearance of, or discourse around, these cultural products, but in the execution of the products themselves.
    — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Having to develop answers forces me to generate criteria around subject matters and discourse around topics, defend things and stand for things related to the series and some not.
    — Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Oct. 2023
  • But as posting about kids has grown into a legitimate industry online, so has discourse about the ethics of turning children into their families’ breadwinners.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2025
  • And when extreme weather happens, discourse on those conspiracy theories tend to spike, Wagner told CNN.
    — Ramishah Maruf, Brandon Miller, CNN, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Shaffer's play opens with Lettice Douffet, a classically quirky old-lady character, discoursing on the history of a stately British home.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 7 June 2017
  • Their story is just one egregious example of the dark side of family vlogging, a popular genre of influencing that often sparks discourse over the exploitation of children, no matter how innocent the content seems on its face.
    — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The incident led to discourse within the Pakistani and South Asian community regarding the use of P-ki as a slur weaponized abroad to diminish their sense of self-worth and belonging.
    — Neena Rouhani, Billboard, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Knights, serfs, monks, men-at-arms, artisans, and shopkeepers traveled these pungent ways, discoursing loudly in decayed Latic and foreign tongues ranging from English to Syrian.
    — Bruce Dale, National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019
  • But like art made in other arenas, prison art exists in relation to economies, power structures governing resources and access, and discourses that legitimate certain works as art and others as craft, material object, historical artifact, or trash.
    — Nicole R. Fleetwood, The New York Review of Books, 28 Apr. 2020
  • This lucidity not only makes his work readable but also staves off the perception that discourse about UFOs and the CIA must be riddled with conspiratorial paranoia.
    — Louis Bury, ARTnews.com, 1 May 2026
  • The most explicitly political of the year’s major contenders is also the odds-on Best Picture front-runner, which has made OBAA discourse the season’s most inescapable topic.
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2026
  • But by Obama’s second term in office, discourse about the importance of representation in media had intensified, and the show came under fire in 2013 for not featuring a Black woman cast member in five years.
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 Aug. 2024
  • Going to Valdai—the annual conference where Vladimir Putin pretends to be a wise tsar interested in discoursing with professors on international politics—had become somewhat controversial.
    — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Specifically, the majority of debate and discourse around the CLARITY Act centers around not only the ability of stablecoin issues to provide yield and yield adjacent products, but how these institutions should be regulated.
    — Sean Stein Smith, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026

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