How to Use treatise in a Sentence

treatise

noun
  • This is not just a rah rah treatise on how to start and run a business.
    — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 22 June 2021
  • The result of the treatise was his being hired by the brand.
    — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 29 Nov. 2025
  • Yes, that can be done, but remember, this a lazy farmer treatise.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 30 May 2021
  • Not many 6-year-olds ask why the sky is blue and then get a treatise on the physics of light waves.
    — Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Yes, this is probably a treatise about the good old days by an old guy who lived them.
    — Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Philpott brings her own special blend of dread and hope to this treatise on the fragility of life.
    — Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2022
  • And Stoller’s treatise is a good place to start in thinking through that question.
    — Kyle Sammin, National Review, 15 Oct. 2019
  • The journalist in me wanted to get to the bottom of this crazy treatise on life and art.
    — Michael Heaton, cleveland.com, 10 May 2017
  • Well, that’s my entire treatise on my chronic disease.
    — Marla Jo Fisher, Oc Register, 10 June 2026
  • Nietzsche even wrote a whole treatise on who to use and abuse history.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 2 Apr. 2021
  • And his treatise on friendship and old age provides wisdom and insight.
    — New York Times, 23 Aug. 2019
  • In his lengthy treatise, McIntosh made a case for this emerging field of medicine.
    — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 23 Dec. 2021
  • That speaks to Williams’s treatise that pitchers have such an advantage.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Apr. 2021
  • An entire treatise of greatness for all the haters who ever attempted to doubt us, test us.
    — Literary Hub, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Mike had been ignoring my treatise and his googling had turned up a news story about an incident at the gallery.
    — Namwali Serpell, Harper's Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Soon after the first war in France broke out, Castellio penned a treatise that was far ahead of its time.
    — Michael Bruening, The Conversation, 3 Dec. 2025
  • The title was a misnomer, as this two-volume treatise clocked in at over 700 pages.
    — Joshua Kendall, Time, 4 Apr. 2020
  • Likewise, writing a vast treatise is bound to confound the AI.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • But not until the hook hits does the song really kick into high gear, and become an avant-garde dance-pop treatise for the ages.
    — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 22 Nov. 2022
  • In the final book of the treatise, Kepler urged the composers of his era to set his equations to music.
    — Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Yet to read his treatise is to feel not FOMO, but alienation.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 24 July 2024
  • The good news is that the book is not simply an academic treatise and will appeal to general readers.
    — Terry W. Hartle, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Sep. 2020
  • The treatise is one of the great meditations on the meaning of life in all its vicissitudes.
    — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 12 July 2018
  • The Roundtable, in its talent treatise, doesn’t mention tax policies.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Oct. 2021
  • In a time of division in the church, a technical treatise on such a delicate matter might not have been the best way to go.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Apr. 2022
  • The novel is not a political treatise.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Roberts, a food law scholar, published the first major treatise on the field in the United States this year.
    — Tanner Walters, SI.com, 8 Aug. 2017
  • Though the treatise has not survived, Roman copies of Polykleitos’ sculpture live on.
    — Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 May 2022
  • The book was created as not a stodgy treatise written in the English of the past for academics who might see it as some kind of relic.
    — Mara Katz, Ars Technica, 2 Nov. 2019
  • But like every region and people, Vance's book is far from the only treatise on Appalachia, nor the best one.
    — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 16 July 2024

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