How to Use virtue in a Sentence

virtue

noun
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  • The boys, by virtue of their mother, belonged to the Hoh Tribe.
    — Nina Shapiro, The Seattle Times, 20 Sep. 2017
  • There’s no clock in tennis, which is one of the sport’s great virtues.
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 2 July 2018
  • The point is that the Rock is a star whose chief virtue is constancy.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Utahns loved the show, even though the characters were not paragons of virtue.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Aug. 2022
  • But there are other virtues for Trump in a midterm loss.
    — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 31 July 2018
  • John had many virtues, but patience was not one of them.
    — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 1 Sep. 2018
  • Patience was a virtue for the past five years of team building.
    — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 21 June 2024
  • There’s virtue in it, but there’s also oil and soy sauce.
    — David Walters, Bon Appetit, 24 Jan. 2017
  • Is Iron Clad off the hook by virtue of that clause in its four and half-page contract?
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2021
  • Extolling the many, many virtues of the home opener just doesn’t quite feel enough.
    — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The Orioles were awarded the top pick by virtue of a tiebreaker.
    — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 16 July 2022
  • The line between virtue and vice is a thin one, after all.
    — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Yet Sebastian, the new amour, is no paragon of virtue or charm.
    — Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2021
  • And Schiff preens, makes speeches about virtue and shows no shame.
    — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 12 Dec. 2019
  • There’s no virtue in making your own load heavier, just for the sake of it.
    — Claire Comstock-Gay, The Cut, 2 Apr. 2018
  • The mom who posted the photo cloaked herself in virtue.
    — Julie Gunlock, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2020
  • All high school stars are young just by virtue of being in high school.
    — Adam Lichtenstein, sun-sentinel.com, 23 Aug. 2019
  • The man Ibsen gives us is a physician who equates facts with truth and truth with virtue.
    — Tony Adler, Chicago Reader, 28 Mar. 2018
  • With a record of 6-0-3, the Current are in first place by virtue of goal difference.
    — Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 13 May 2024
  • The three leads were supposed to be fathers on a quest to save their daughters’ virtue.
    — Allison P. Davis, The Cut, 1 Apr. 2018
  • On that do-over third down, the Chiefs ended up getting the first down by virtue of a penalty.
    — Andrew Joseph, The Enquirer, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Both pairs of parents may want to instill civic virtues in their child.
    — Jens Olav Dahlgaard, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Mercy is a virtue, and as such, is not something to be conjured by as a recipe.
    — John Baldoni, Forbes, 18 June 2021
  • But along the way to that end, until the threads are sewn together, patience is a virtue.
    — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2023
  • Living long is not a virtue in and of itself, but living well is.
    — Zachary Karabell, WSJ, 14 May 2021
  • A movie of classical virtues is now a classic in its own right.
    — Tre'vell Anderson, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2017
  • But not all great country songs extol the virtues of a happy life.
    — Readers, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The virtues of fish may lie elsewhere or have more to do with displacing meat.
    — Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2018
  • Such norms stem not simply from personal virtue, but from the heart of centrism — the understanding that your side’s defeat does not mean the apocalyptic fall of the nation.
    — Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post, 23 July 2024
  • When, in a century or so, American historians look back upon this age, they will be forgiven for asking why a country with so many virtues yielded so many inadequate national politicians.
    — The Editors, National Review, 24 July 2024

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