precept

in a sentence

It is difficult to get along because we have different precepts.

I behave on instinct and then rationalize to make my behavior fit my moral precepts.

She is critical of the precept of literal interpretation of the scriptures.

She now commenced to practise her husband's precepts.  (source) Frederick Douglass, Learning to Read and Write, 1845

Mr. Browne's precept for October was: YOUR DEEDS ARE YOUR MONUMENTS.  (source) R. J. Palacio, Wonder, 2012

I trust that the precepts of international law will be observed, gentlemen.†  (source) Tom Clancy, The Hunt for Red October, 1984

So there's our second ironic precept: irony doesn't work for everyone.  (source) Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, 2003

One must train the imagination for the promotion of peace and harmony and the precepts of White Imagination, because Black Imagination is not what anybody wants at all, oh no. And if that isn't enough, there's the Looking Glass Maze to get through.†  (source) Frank Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars, 2006

Here was a man who lived outside the faufreluches while obeying their every precept.  (source) Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965

BRADY I'm sure you teach according to the precepts of the Lord.†  (source) Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, Inherit the Wind, 1955

Now to John Quincy he wrote, "Rejoice always in all events, be thankful always for all things is a hard precept for human nature, though in my philosophy and in my religion a perfect duty."  (source) David McCullough, John Adams, 2002

Not until I had reached the bank and was making my homeward way along the top of it did the monotonous Sunday precepts join up with reality.†  (source) John Wyndham, The Chrysalids, 1955

Even the elves will be bound by this precept, and they shall learn to measure their words carefully or speak not at all.  (source) Christopher Paolini, Inheritance, 2011