How to Use double standard in a Sentence

double standard

noun

• She argued that society applies a double standard in dealing with women who commit adultery.
• All-Star, who viewed the move as part of a double standard.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 30 Dec. 2021
• The bassist spoke to this instance and called it a double standard.
  — Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 23 Jan. 2023
• That seems like a double standard to many in the cannabis business.
  — Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Apr. 2021
• This shows that there is more than a double standard at play.
  — Eugene Kontorovich, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2020
• There's a double standard in a way that is not applied to men.
  — Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Oct. 2020
• Daly later says in the the recording that there is a double standard regarding the use of the racial slur.
  — Jim Ayello, The Indianapolis Star, 26 June 2020
• The sense of a double standard, once implanted, is hard to shake.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2022
• DeLong says this is an easy way for the state to limit its costs, and a double standard.
  — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 14 Oct. 2022
• And the guy with the double standard is but one member of a great woke pandemic herd.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 3 Mar. 2021
• This has caused some to argue there is a double standard.
  — W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner, 12 June 2020
• Williams said that Bryant’s firing shows the double standard within the tech field.
  — Tat Bellamy-Walker, NBC News, 24 Aug. 2022
• For Frost, the hurried measures were the mark of a blatant double standard.
  — Benjamin Mueller, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Nov. 2021
• People are more aware that there can’t be a double standard.
  — Natalie Weiner, Billboard, 25 July 2019
• The allegations of double standards have truth to them, to a point.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2023
• Five years ago in Rio de Janeiro, she was stunned when her bronze on beam was met with a shrug of the shoulders, proof of the double standard she is held to.
  — Will Graves, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Aug. 2021
• Is Fields the latest black quarterback to face the draft’s double standard?
  — Matt Goul, cleveland, 28 Apr. 2021
• Many are fuming at the racist double standard now set by the government.
  — Hanna Kozlowska, The New Republic, 13 Apr. 2022
• But if remote work becomes the norm, that double standard may fade.
  — Katie Johnston, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2022
• Marks called the move an unjust and unfair double standard.
  — Richard Fowler, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
• The double standard is almost as old as hip-hop itself.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2024
• If ever there was an example of the double standard, this is it.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 26 June 2023
• The team had planned for some time to ignore the rules this year in order highlight the double standard set for women athletes across the sports world.
  — Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 27 July 2021
• Some civil rights activists saw a racial double standard in the way the white gunman was treated.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Nov. 2021
• The double standard from the anti-Trump crowd didn't go unnoticed.
  — Fox News, 12 June 2020
• But critics have pointed to a double standard by France.
  — Elian Peltier, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2022
• Many called that an example of a racist double standard.
  — Juliana Kim, NPR, 31 Mar. 2024
• This is a double standard to which I’ve been subjected my entire time.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2021
• The latest example of this double standard is in Brazil.
  — Dominic Pino, National Review, 9 Sep. 2024
• The double standards faced by women athletes are not limited to the virtual world.
  — Lindsey Darvin, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024