How to Use moral in a Sentence
- He felt that he had a moral obligation to help the poor.
- We're confident she has the moral fiber to make the right decision.
- The author avoids making moral judgments.
- Their behavior was not moral.
- Animals are not moral creatures and are not responsible for their actions.
- Each story teaches an important moral lesson.
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Let’s put aside the moral case.
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Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
9 Oct. 2025
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But what about in a moral sense?
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Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
9 Sep. 2025
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Where is the moral outrage about that?
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Voice Of The People,
New York Daily News,
4 Feb. 2026
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The moral stakes are not abstract.
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Jason Snyder,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2026
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What does moral courage look like today?
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Katie Sanders,
Time,
22 May 2026
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Now how does that drive me to a kind of moral right to show this film?
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Jordan Crucchiola,
Vulture,
7 Aug. 2023
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Taking the nice moral high ground, not the low road.
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Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Apr. 2026
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To me, that roar had the moral tone of the crowd at a bullfight.
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Fay Vincent,
WSJ,
27 Apr. 2022
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War, for de Gaulle, is a moral matter.
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Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
4 June 2026
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But are Democrats in some ways ceding a moral high ground?
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ABC News,
7 June 2026
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The financial case is just as strong as the moral one.
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Elaine Perlman,
Oc Register,
14 Sep. 2025
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That just struck people as a moral job undone.
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David Frum,
The Atlantic,
28 Jan. 2026
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This is an urgent moral call to action.
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Robert B. Reich,
Hartford Courant,
25 Apr. 2026
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Every day is a kind of moral labyrinth for these people.
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Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
5 June 2026
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To stay or to leave, goes the modern moral dilemma.
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Cnt Editors,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
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There has to be a deeper moral truth in what had just happened.
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Dana Taylor,
USA Today,
1 June 2026
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This is the profound moral challenge of our time.
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Brad Braxton,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Sep. 2025
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From childhood, honesty is framed as a moral north star.
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Angela Haupt,
Time,
18 Feb. 2026
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Hawley framed the issue as a moral choice.
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Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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What is novel is the moral framing.
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Gabriel Alin Zainescu,
Forbes.com,
25 May 2026
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In a world that has lost its moral compass, nature goes awry.
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Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
14 Jan. 2022
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Watching the moments that forged his moral core.
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Sergio Pereira,
Space.com,
13 May 2026
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But jealousy is not a moral failure.
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Meehika Barua,
Time,
29 May 2026
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But its moral crisis is more urgent.
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Robertas Bakula,
Oc Register,
23 Apr. 2026
- The moral of the story is to be satisfied with what you have.
- The moral here is: pay attention to the warning lights in your car.
- The author points to recent cases of fraud as evidence of the lack of morals in the business world.
- Socrates was accused of corrupting the morals of the youth of Athens.
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The moral of this story is twofold.
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Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
26 Apr. 2026
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So what’s the moral of that story?
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Jayson Stark,
New York Times,
9 Oct. 2025
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That goes for the Catholic morals and ethics that shaped me, too.
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New York Times,
2 July 2019
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Then again, the moral of the story comes through loud and clear.
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Chris Vognar,
Rolling Stone,
9 Feb. 2024
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Stand firm and don’t let your morals go to the wayside for them.
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Tarot.com,
Baltimore Sun,
25 Jan. 2024
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This cast is lovely, and that helps the moral of a show so much.
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Adam Rathe,
Town & Country,
6 Dec. 2022
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The sole act of standing for morals and virtue would have been the right thing.
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
4 Jan. 2026
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Mechem says the moral is an important one at this time of year.
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Washington Post,
5 Jan. 2022
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How can a man with no morals at all lead based on his morality?
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Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
9 Jan. 2026
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Plus, my kids already have better morals than most of you.
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Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Aug. 2025
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The moral of this one is easy to love—there's no one way to be a great mother.
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Kara Thompson,
Town & Country,
3 Mar. 2022
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Daniels has taught us much about their character and morals, too.
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Eugene Robinson,
Anchorage Daily News,
9 Mar. 2018
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She was turned into a saint so that her life could be turned into a moral.
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Blair McClendon,
The New Yorker,
17 Jan. 2022
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All of this to say, a system of morals isn’t enshrined in the game’s code.
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WIRED,
20 Sep. 2023
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The moral of this story is that there is more than one way to think about pickles.
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Dorothy Dworkin,
Sun Sentinel,
29 Sep. 2022
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And the moral of the story is to be nice to the creepy guys in the gas station.
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Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Apr. 2026
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Adhering to our morals and sense of self is vital.
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Lisa Stardust,
Refinery29,
18 Sep. 2025
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That was my direct message — not the money but the moral.
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Mara H. Gottfried,
Twin Cities,
16 Sep. 2025
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Washington is not a place to live in…the morals are deplorable.
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Longreads,
8 May 2018
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In the episode, Gavin eschewed morals in favor of stroking his own ego.
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Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
28 Oct. 2019
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So to pack up and leave was maybe not the right moral as well as strategic decision.
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CBS News,
6 Oct. 2021
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Th' r-rest iv th' play is made up iv hard cracks be all th' char-ack-ters at each others' morals.
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Charles P. Pierce,
Esquire,
10 Jan. 2014
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The rent is high, the food is bad, the dust is disgusting and the morals are deplorable.
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Scott Howard,
National Review,
18 July 2023
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The rents are high, the food is bad, the dust is disgusting and the morals are deplorable.
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Longreads,
8 May 2018
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This film for me is about morals and scruples and what people will do or won’t do for money.
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Zak Cheney-Rice,
Vulture,
28 Aug. 2025
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Not all of them come with neat little morals or a light behind every goodbye.
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Matthew Strauss,
Pitchfork,
17 Sep. 2025
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