public spirit
Example Sentences
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We need a new public spirit: more people willing to recognize things aren’t going to get better unless we fight for it.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2021
Now they’re graveyards of sanity and public spirit.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 14, 2021
Perhaps the Ryder and Presidents Cup lose a tad of luster because match play is not as much a novelty, but those events are more fueled by public spirit and patriotism than playing formats.
From Golf Digest ● May 7, 2020
"It may be the creation of a multimillionaire artist with his own agenda to pursue, but it has a real and generous public spirit."
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2016
Through his great benevolence, and public spirit, he was not driven from his home as his sons were, the revolutionists allowed him to remain, and he died at Charlestown, Sept. 17th, 1798, aged 83 years.
From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by Stark, James H.
