How to Use zeitgeist in a Sentence

zeitgeist

noun
  • His songs perfectly captured the zeitgeist of 1960s America.
  • Omakase by now is firmly lodged in the zeitgeist.
    — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 24 Dec. 2025
  • In recent years, the facelift has seized the zeitgeist.
    — Jolene Edgar, Allure, 11 Dec. 2025
  • To be mentioned on that show means that our show is in the zeitgeist.
    — Patrick Crowley, Billboard, 18 May 2018
  • What books and what culture can do is change the zeitgeist, right?
    — Ann Friedman, The Cut, 22 June 2017
  • Don’t mistake this decade’s poll for a mere shift in the zeitgeist.
    — Armond White, National Review, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Add in the wine zeitgeist, with drinkers craving more than soft, fruity reds and whites.
    — Bloomberg.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • And yet you guys are still doing such great work and are still right there in the zeitgeist.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Or the low-grade brain damage humming in the zeitgeist.
    — Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Part of that zeitgeist was the rise of antisemitic hate.
    — Tom Dreisbach, NPR, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Like anything, our pranks revolved around the zeitgeist of the time.
    — Arkansas Online, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Stranger Things pierced the zeitgeist in a way that will be hard to recreate.
    — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 26 Dec. 2025
  • Now even Mordhau's come and gone from the zeitgeist, so…we'll see.
    — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 10 June 2020
  • The zeitgeist is a slippery thing to cling to; no one knows that better than a pop star.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 24 Aug. 2020
  • Part of that is the film's message, which is very much a part of the current zeitgeist.
    — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 30 Jan. 2018
  • This story has stayed sort of in and out of the zeitgeist over the past 30 years.
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The journey feels right for our zappy zeitgeist.
    — Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 1 Jan. 2026
  • Then there’s the zeitgeist, which seems to be on the side of the 1970s.
    — Tanya Dukes, Robb Report, 6 Nov. 2021
  • The dark side of corporate office life seem to be in the zeitgeist.
    — Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 June 2022
  • Most of the stuff that’s happening is not the mainstream zeitgeist at all.
    — Sumeet Kulkarni, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2022
  • Vara has a congenial style and, her nose to the zeitgeist, good stories to tell.
    — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Sometimes a speech rises above its time and place and becomes its own part of the zeitgeist.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2018
  • The show, and Bailey himself, earned a place in the zeitgeist.
    — Olivia-Anne Cleary, Time, 30 Sep. 2025
  • At the same time, the ad’s narrative captures the zeitgeist of the times.
    — Cassie Werber, Quartz, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Male health is very much in the zeitgeist, and politicians are taking notice.
    — Annalisa Merelli, STAT, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Yet this friend group isn’t just out of step with the generational zeitgeist.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 1 June 2026
  • Of all the denim available right now, roomy pairs have the strongest hold on the zeitgeist.
    — Alison Syrett Cleary, Glamour, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Given the current zeitgeist, does this feel like the right cause to align ourselves with?
    — Andy Katz-Mayfield, Quartz at Work, 25 Nov. 2019
  • The traps became the franchise, at least in the culture zeitgeist.
    — Emily Palmer Heller, Vulture, 14 May 2021
  • In the short term, what does the company have in store to build off the Olympic zeitgeist?
    — Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 18 Aug. 2024

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