ideals

Example Sentences

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We should look forward, preserving those ideals and promises that made this country a magnet for builders in 1800, and passing along that promise, stronger than when we received it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 26, 2026

That’s my hope as I open “Middlemarch” and follow Dorothea Brooke while she struggles to reconcile her high ideals with the messy realities of provincial England.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 25, 2026

For decades Auroville held fast to its lofty ideals as a self-governing haven for yoga enthusiasts and seekers of spiritual freedom of "all creeds and nationalities".

From Barron's • Jun. 25, 2026

American leaders usually take that moment of deserved honor and gratitude to pay homage to the dead and wax poetic about the values and the ideals for which they died.

From Salon • Jun. 9, 2026

They wanted someone they were certain would always promote Soviet ideals above her own.

From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson