How to Use espouse in a Sentence

espouse

verb

• The new theory has been espoused by many leading physicists.
• Those espousing unpopular views were often excluded.
• This is not the day to get on your soapbox and espouse your views.
  — Georgia Nicols, The Denver Post, 17 Jan. 2025
• Democrats and pro-choice groups have widely espoused the idea of court packing in the months since the fall of Roe v. Wade.
  — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 14 May 2023
• Politicians need to stop cozying up to those who espouse it.
  — Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 7 Nov. 2022
• Revelations about the work of great painters to espouse.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2022
• The president’s swipe across the aisle is likely a preface for the kind of rhetoric Democrats will espouse on the campaign trail in the coming months.
  — Alisa Wiersema, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2022
• Adherents of the alt-right have been known to espouse racist, anti-Semitic and sexist points of view.
  — Robert Costa, The Seattle Times, 21 Aug. 2018
• Most espouse traditional views about the role of women and the sexes.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2024
• The Lummis-Gillibrand bill appears to espouse that view, much to the crypto crowd’s delight.
  — Wired, 6 July 2022
• Practical types espouse the joys of a pale-blue surgical mask as a...
  — Katharine K. Zarrella and Sara Bosworth, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2020
• Members of the group are known to espouse white supremacist rhetoric.
  — Quinn Owen, ABC News, 19 Dec. 2022
• My son Gabe and his friend Jake are already tight, so that makes little sense — kind of like a lot of the mumbo jumbo espoused by the chain.
  — Anna Caplan, star-telegram, 1 Mar. 2018
• Benz, in his public posts and appearances, has not espoused the same racist views as Frame Game.
  — Brandy Zadrozny, NBC News, 6 Oct. 2023
• The Carters are fashion fanatics, whose love of clothing is espoused in their lyrics and in the epic visual that goes with each duet.
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 6 Mar. 2018
• While he was cleared of charges of heresy, he was instructed to no longer espouse the theory.
  — Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 19 June 2023
• Martin, while espousing a ‘trust the process’ approach, has not shown great faith in his players.
  — Michael Cox, The Athletic, 14 Dec. 2024
• The satire is largely aimed at the kind of pieties about inclusion that are espoused by woke white liberals.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2018
• The letter, meant to be satirical, espoused the use of sunshine over candles.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 7 Mar. 2020
• Most male players to this day seldom exceed 4⅝ and some even espouse gripping down to 4½.
  — Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2022
• There’s no hard data on how many Christians espouse QAnon.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Aug. 2020
• And don't some espouse that pain provides the catalyst to achieve some form of higher meaning?
  — Andrea Valdez, WIRED, 20 Apr. 2018
• But these killings galvanized backlash from those who felt that the time for the pacifism that Martin Luther King, Jr., espoused had passed.
  — Rachel Kleinfeld, Foreign Affairs, 19 July 2024
• Thompson said China can't espouse one thing then act in the opposite way.
  — Brad Lendon, CNN, 25 Oct. 2021
• There are many theories for the purpose of these stones, but traveling through time was not one espoused by our guide.
  — Deborah Doyle, National Geographic, 8 Apr. 2019
• The spouse many once considered their best friend could espouse secrets in public.
  — Perry Vandell, azcentral, 17 June 2018
• Even folks who make a living beautifying homes espouse the virtues of the laundry chair.
  — Rachel Kurzius, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2024
• Biles has found that younger Gen Zers, and the youngest athletes, Gen Alpha, espouse a more balanced approach both to training and to any challenge.
  — Byjane Thier, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2023
• For the last four years or so, almost all political junkies on the right have been critical of virtually every word and deed that former President Joe Biden espoused.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 23 Jan. 2025
• The group has espoused conservative Islamic beliefs in the past, forcing women and girls to follow strict dress codes and persecuting religious minorities.
  — Ross O'Keefe, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 4 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 4 Mar 2025