mores

Example Sentences

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Their ability to enact change depended on their willingness to defy current custom and mores.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026

Wind-swept Catherine is as constrained by societal mores as geographic ones.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2026

Social mores are changing, with childlessness no longer viewed as unusual or undesirable.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 12, 2025

Though “Seven Veils” isn’t as undeniable and scathing as something like “Tár,” it’s a compelling study of the shifting belief about how great art is made, upended by contemporary mores.

From Salon • Mar. 12, 2025

Why didn’t he just put the rumors to rest and say the sopho mores would have their crack at the varsity boat the following year, as usual?

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown