How to Use motto in a Sentence

motto

noun
  • Our big motto is just have fun.
    — Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 13 May 2026
  • Our big motto is just have fun.
    — Rachel McRady, PEOPLE, 1 Dec. 2025
  • That’s been our motto all year long.
    — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 May 2026
  • So just take care of your own business is the motto.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2026
  • But values can’t just live in a motto.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • My motto is no fear, and resilience.
    — Noah Perkins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2025
  • This new motto could be this year’s version.
    — Jesse Granger, New York Times, 23 May 2026
  • That’s not the only team motto that can be found on the ring, though.
    — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 28 May 2025
  • My motto is the rich stay rich, and the poor have more than the year before.
    — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
  • That’s been my motto for the last few years, and it’s been working well for me.
    — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The seal, flag and motto go back to 1786.
    — Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 19 Sep. 2025
  • For her, that motto continues to sum up the ethos of the event.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2024
  • Our school motto was Faites vos désirs réalités.
    — Hari Kunzru, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Start the night as strangers, leave as friends is our C&C motto.
    — Jaclyn Johnson, ELLE Decor, 15 Dec. 2017
  • Our motto this week is, four hoops games on Friday beats a day at the beach.
    — Tom Krasovic, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Our goal is a state championship, and that’s what the motto is, to get to that.
    — Dominique Yates, The Courier-Journal, 9 Sep. 2020
  • The brand’s motto is skin first, but Glossier doesn’t bore you with science.
    — Amy Larocca, The Cut, 9 Jan. 2018
  • This is the motto that Scott Lacey lives by each and every day.
    — Priority Health, Detroit Free Press, 2 Jan. 2018
  • That’s the motto of the Olympics, which was supposed to be in its first full week right now.
    — National Geographic, 27 July 2020
  • To charge forward and to never settle was the motto.
    — Edward Segarra, USA Today, 19 Nov. 2025
  • Kiester, who was born on March 4, took the date as a motto to march forth in life.
    — Kelly Smith, Star Tribune, 15 Oct. 2020
  • At a time of scarcity of food during the war, mother used to say her motto to us at meal time.
    — Catherine Pearson, New York Times, 8 May 2026
  • That’s my motto, understand the grind.
    — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Our motto is always to try to do something that no one’s ever done before.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Some of them are pleading with members of their party to avoid adopting the motto.
    — Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic, 18 Jan. 2026
  • My motto as a reporter is assume nothing.
    — CBS News, 28 Dec. 2025
  • That has always been my motto — that Panama is going to shine.
    — Ingrid Fajardo, Billboard, 13 Oct. 2025
  • What is your motto or philosophy of life?
    — Point Loma-Ob Monthly, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2026
  • That was always the motto at the Friars Roasts.
    — Frank Digiacomo, Billboard, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The Pacers have embraced that motto, and that has shown in the playoffs.
    — Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 May 2025

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