How to Use mores in a Sentence

mores

plural noun
  • On the one hand, social mores have changed in such a way that racists must be even more subtle.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Hitchcock’s version was shaped in other ways by the mores of the time.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2020
  • Without the bourgeoisie’s staid and starchy mores, there is no bohemia.
    — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
  • Of course, societal mores shift and change over periods of time.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 15 June 2022
  • The film, in theaters now, is a charming and thoughtful take on love, class, and social mores.
    — Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 8 July 2022
  • Did the world and its mores change too quickly around Andrew Cuomo?
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2021
  • This witty novel about the haves and have-mores is Succession with a soul.
    — Shannon Carlin, Time, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The mores are a little different; the day-to-day life is different.
    — Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 22 Aug. 2021
  • This wasn't a case where the Court was going with the changing mores of society, no.
    — NBC News, 5 Dec. 2021
  • Bachmann once said that great writers always showed the mores of their times through portraits of women.
    — Dylan Byron, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2021
  • Workplace perks and relaxed corporate mores were treated as metonyms for ethics and ideals.
    — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 15 June 2021
  • And our products are playing an important role in our customers’ lives mores than ever.
    — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Though accepted in ancient times, the practice is clearly at odds with modern mores.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Fifty years after he was born, laws and public mores have changed, with new acceptance of unwed mothers.
    — CBS News, 21 Mar. 2021
  • These changes have occurred because of changes in social mores, the economy and gender roles.
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 10 June 2021
  • Here, Hamm plays a no-nonsense bureaucrat in this satire of corporate mores.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 8 June 2022
  • Without local guides to language and mores, more Americans would have died.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2021
  • But the pandemic seems to have accelerated a shift away from the workplace mores of the past.
    — Nedra Rhone, ajc, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Those beliefs can run counter to India’s economic goals and changing social mores.
    — New York Times, 13 Dec. 2021
  • Wyoming, then struggle with society’s mores and their own conflicted feelings over the next 20 years.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 26 Mar. 2021
  • Jacquot isn’t doing anything so facile as criticizing past mores to praise our own, though the sense of progress is unmistakable.
    — Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 14 July 2021
  • The parallels between the mores of the 19th century and those of our era are hardly exact.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2022
  • And, in a post-MeToo society, where mores have shifted so quickly, is our lot really so bad?
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2021
  • That isn’t how some Democratic voters understand the changing mores of this moment.
    — New York Times, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Perhaps the best example of a social network whose mores are now working against it is Meta, née Facebook.
    — Kira Bindrim, Quartz, 26 Apr. 2022
  • In Judy & Punch, witch trials are used as a way to deter any behavior that deviates from social mores.
    — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 8 June 2020
  • Out are the handshakes, hugs and kisses on the cheek (a bedrock of Southern European cultural mores).
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Having conducted research in the Black belt for almost two decades, Johnson was able to trace these changing mores over time.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Much of the story is about how Luca and Alberto struggle to adapt to the strange social mores of the fishing village.
    — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 June 2021
  • The show mocked the region’s politicians and mores, a more mainstream and less edgy version of Saturday Night Live.
    — Rachel Donadio, Vogue, 26 July 2022

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