Sample Sentences for
mores
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mores as in:  social mores

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    From all accounts there are no more puritanical mores in the world than those enforced by the Communists in Russia, where women's fashions, for instance, are as prudent and all-covering as any American Baptist would desire.  (source)
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    Jean Louise's gleanings of adult morals and mores to date were few, but enough: it was possible to have a baby without being married, she knew that.  (source)
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    In particular, the pattern of sexual mores-insofar as there had ever been a single pattern—had altered radically.  (source)
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    They refuse to be repressed by society's mores or laws.  (source)
    mores = the conventions and values that are important to a group
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    In my eyes she was the unflinching, strong-armed proponent of white values, mores, and attitudes.  (source)
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    And yet, it was a matter of manners and mores.  (source)
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    Lieutenant Scheisskopf was so elated by his unexpected achievement that he gave his wife a sharp crack over the head with the pole when she tried to drag him into bed to celebrate by showing their contempt for the sexual mores of the lower middle classes in Western civilization.  (source)
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    In those days the church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.  (source)
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    They would need to learn English and how to fill out job applications, and they would have to acclimate themselves to the mores and expectations of the American workplace.  (source)
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    Those Garveyites I knew could never understand why I liked them but would never follow them, and I pitied them too much to tell them that they could never achieve their goal, that Africa was owned by the imperial powers of Europe, that their lives were alien to the mores of the natives of Africa, that they were people of the West and would forever be so until they either merged with the West or perished.  (source)
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    Note to self: Look up the words progenitive, omnipotent, and mores.  (source)
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    I never appreciated what a high art the fan dance can be until the first time I watched a French girl get out of her clothes and into her bikini in plain sight of citizens, tourists, gendarmes, dogs—and me—all without quite violating the lenient French mores concerning "indecent exposure."  (source)
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    America unceasingly reinvents itself, and it must create language to express that reinvention—in our social mores, in science and technology, in religion, in politics, in the arts—and also to reflect our power and influence in the world.  (source)
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    There are campfires and s'mores and long walks through the woods.  (source)
    s'mores = marshmallows and a layer of chocolate sandwiched between two pieces of graham cracker
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    We learned an important lesson: one cannot make s'mores out of lamb meat and chickpea patties.  (source)
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    A little later, Daddy has to go in to the hospital, and Kitty goes over to our neighbor's house because they're making s'mores in the fireplace, so it's just Josh and me cleaning up.  (source)
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    After Mom and Dad put them to bed, Jacob woke Tyler up to make s'mores.  (source)
    s'mores = marshmallows and a layer of chocolate sandwiched between two pieces of graham cracker
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    ROPER My family may not be at the palace, sir, but in the City MORE The Ropers were advocates when the Mores were selling pewter; there's nothing wrong with your family.  (source)
    Mores = a family with the last name, More
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    After life skills, I stop in the bathroom, and spend the three minutes before bell primping in front of the mirror, ignoring the s'mores chattering on either side of me, and trying hard not to focus on the fact that I'll come face-to-face with Mr. Daimler in less than five minutes.  (source)
    s'mores = a word for sophomores in this novel.
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    We'll never see another like Her, mores the pity!  (source)
    mores = more is
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    For tonight, hamburgers, baked beans, s'mores.  (source)
    s'mores = marshmallows and a layer of chocolate sandwiched between two pieces of graham cracker
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    Pots, pans, knives, sisors, lawn mores, Fixed.  (source)
    mores = intentional misspelling of lawnmowers
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    After we eat the s'mores, I was thinking about calling it a day.  (source)
    s'mores = marshmallows and a layer of chocolate sandwiched between two pieces of graham cracker
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    Fine art, poetry, that kind of thing, elevates a nation—emollit mores—you understand a little Latin now.  (source)
    mores = use in a Latin phrase that means "softens customs" or "weakens morals"
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    She was the youngest mother I had ever known and the only one who ever would have let us eat all the s'mores we wanted.  (source)
    s'mores = marshmallows and a layer of chocolate sandwiched between two pieces of graham cracker
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    And mores the pity!  (source)
    mores = more is
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