How to Use virtue in a Sentence

virtue

noun
  • But Jaissle’s age was a virtue.
    — Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Every time it was dressed up as virtue.
    — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2025
  • All high school stars are young just by virtue of being in high school.
    — Adam Lichtenstein, sun-sentinel.com, 23 Aug. 2019
  • There’s no clock in tennis, which is one of the sport’s great virtues.
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 2 July 2018
  • The sole act of standing for morals and virtue would have been the right thing.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2026
  • This is why the virtue framing matters so much.
    — Fortune, 9 Apr. 2026
  • This is why the virtue framing matters so much.
    — Patrick Van Esch, The Conversation, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Could these kinds of virtues really be good for you?
    — Michael Prinzing, The Conversation, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Patience was a virtue for the past five years of team building.
    — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 21 June 2024
  • And Schiff preens, makes speeches about virtue and shows no shame.
    — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Both pairs of parents may want to instill civic virtues in their child.
    — Jens Olav Dahlgaard, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2018
  • These are not abstract values and virtues.
    — Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 19 Jan. 2026
  • The virtue signaling has to end.
    — Jon Root Outkick, FOXNews.com, 7 June 2026
  • Agnes understands that the world is not about good and evil and virtue and sin.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 23 June 2025
  • Utahns loved the show, even though the characters were not paragons of virtue.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Aug. 2022
  • The garden may be the last place on earth where the virtue of patience is taught.
    — Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 27 May 2026
  • There’s no virtue in making your own load heavier, just for the sake of it.
    — Claire Comstock-Gay, The Cut, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Extolling the many, many virtues of the home opener just doesn’t quite feel enough.
    — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The point is that the Rock is a star whose chief virtue is constancy.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Yet Sebastian, the new amour, is no paragon of virtue or charm.
    — Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2021
  • If patience is a virtue, then Virgo wins the first-place prize.
    — Lisa Stardust, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Its messiness becomes a virtue.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Beyond that, the tech lords often suffer the vices of their virtues.
    — Walter Russell Mead, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Protein, for all its many virtues, is just another thing to count.
    — Rachel Sugar, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Why let the facts get in the way of some solid virtue-signaling, though?
    — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 10 June 2026
  • Mercy is a virtue, and as such, is not something to be conjured by as a recipe.
    — John Baldoni, Forbes, 18 June 2021
  • Watching the actions of humans – their foibles and their virtues.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 2 June 2025
  • Thus far, though, her films express misgivings about the virtue of those bonds.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The three leads were supposed to be fathers on a quest to save their daughters’ virtue.
    — Allison P. Davis, The Cut, 1 Apr. 2018
  • The man Ibsen gives us is a physician who equates facts with truth and truth with virtue.
    — Tony Adler, Chicago Reader, 28 Mar. 2018

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