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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If he used the same principle as with the arrows …. (source)principle = fundamental concept
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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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Cherry had said she wouldn't drink Dally's Coke if she was starving, and she meant it. It was the principle of the thing. But Marcia saw no reason to throw away a perfectly good, free Coke. (source)principle = moral rule (in this case, not doing something that is "wrong" even if it would be more practical)
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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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