Sample Sentences forprinciple (editor-reviewed)
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I accept as a basic principle that all people are precious and should be treated with equal dignity.principle = belief
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Our organization has a written list of guiding principles.principles = beliefs or rules
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She lacks principles. Her belief system depends on what advantages her in any given situation.principles = moral rules that guide behavior
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Basic rocketry principles indicate that our rocket should exceed an altitude of one mile, but we won't know that it works until we test it.principles = natural rules describing how the world works
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We agree in principle, but there are many details to work out.principle = in basic belief
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One guiding principle is that everyone should be treated fairly.principle = rule or belief
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Much larger than Heisenberg's principle or Godel's theorem, which everybody rattles on about. (source)principle = basic rule or belief
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"That's the principle that governs all things," he said. (source)principle = basic rule (of how the world works)
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He knew the principle of the room exactly. (source)principle = basic way it worked
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Though the result were bodily weakness, yet perhaps no one can say that the consequences were to be regretted, for these were a life in conformity to higher principles. (source)principles = basic rules or beliefs
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Scholars do not, on principle, believe in the supernatural.† (source)
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I pictured Patch's unprincipled grin and his glittering black eyes.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unprincipled means not and reverses the meaning of principled. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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Jake's principled defense of his dead client's last will, as well as his somewhat cocky belief that the trial should be held in Clanton, in his courtroom, was severely shaken by a tragedy that occurred later that night in an ice storm near the town of Lake Village, in the southern part of Ford County.† (source)
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If he used the same principle as with the arrows …. (source)principle = fundamental concept
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I love learning about Newton and the basic principles the whole universe obeys. (source)principles = basic rules or truths
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Her favorite ice cream flavor (she said she refuses to eat low-fat frozen yogurt on principle alone) is Cherry Garcia.† (source)
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Then some bold, unprincipled, ignorant adventurer was found (no difficult task in the days of competition), and he was bribed to 'create a market' by breaking up whatever traditional society there might be in the doomed country, and by destroying whatever leisure or pleasure he found there.† (source)
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A woman who encountered him when he was a hearing officer for the Savannah Housing Authority remembered him as being highly principled.† (source)
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