Sample Sentences for

integrity

grouped by contextual meaning

(editor-reviewed)

Real integrity is doing the right thing when nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.  (source) Oprah Winfrey

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.  (source) Samuel Johnson

"Integrity," she said next. "Jonas has, like all of us, committed minor transgressions."  (source) Lois Lowry, The Giver, 1993

I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system— that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.  (source) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

But ON THE OTHER SIDE, the social bond itself is nothing but the mutual reflection of these self-secure integrities.†  (source) George Orwell, Politics and the English Language, 1946

One holds every phrase, every scene to the light as one reads—for Nature seems, very oddly, to have provided us with an inner light by which to judge of the novelist's integrity or disintegrity.†  (source) Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, 1928

If I was going to toy with him and challenge his loyalty, then he'd toy with me, test my integrity.  (source) Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner, 2003

Hayden once said that Connor had integrity.  (source) Neal Shusterman, Unwind, 2007

I copied the text, not including Caravaggio's full name because, in a selective display of integrity, I decided that would be cheating.  (source) Tara Westover, Educated, 2018

The police, as servants of the law, must be of a high order of integrity.  (source) Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None, 1939

We shall crush you down to the point from which there is no coming back. ... Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.  (source) George Orwell, 1984, 1949

His integrity was perfect; it was a law of nature with him, rather than a choice or a principle;  (source) Nathanial Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 1850

He was respected by all who knew him for his integrity and indefatigable attention to public business.  (source) Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, 1831

The aircraft lost structural integrity.

"If I remember," Malcolm said, "I predicted fence integrity would fail."  (source) Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1993

I'd remember to protect the integrity of my stillsuit.  (source) Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965

The frost feathers holding me up, it became apparent, were maybe five inches thick and had the structural integrity of stale corn bread.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

Sure, it may never come along, but at least they can rest easily in the grave knowing that they've done their little part to preserve the integrity of the Wish as an idea.  (source) John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012

But this would violate the principle, followed on all sides though never formulated, of cultural integrity. If Oceania were to conquer the areas that used once to be known as France and Germany, it would be necessary either to exterminate the inhabitants, a task of great physical difficulty, or to assimilate a population of about a hundred million people, who, so far as technical development goes, are roughly on the Oceanic level.  (source) George Orwell, 1984, 1949

Disinfect the area and maintain integrity.  (source) John Ringo, Live Free or Die, 2010

I have as much interest in the maintenance of …. the integrity of the nation as any other man…. This is the first test of a modern free government in the act of sustaining itself against internal enemys . . .  (source) James M. McPherson, What They Fought For - 1861-1865, 1994

Archivists rate documents one through ten for their structural integrity.  (source) Dan Brown, Angels & Demons, 2000

It is as though the dark were resolving him out of his integrity, into an unrelated scattering of components  (source) William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, 1930

…bodily integrity follows nerve-blood flow according to the deepest awareness of cell needs…. all things/cells/beings are impermanent….  (source) Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965

It looked as if one of the plates to one side had lost integrity for some reason and then proceeded to, yes, eat the rest of the assembly.  (source) John Ringo, Live Free or Die, 2010

The integrity of your search is compromised.  (source) Dan Brown, Angels & Demons, 2000