How to Use ethic in a Sentence

ethic

noun

• Ethics is his chosen field of study.
• The wreck was too deep, the rewards too uncertain, the ethics unclear.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
• That ethic—the late-shift, side-hustle, legion-of-one style—feels baked into the music itself.
  — Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2021
• Promote an ethic of male care - in schools, media, and key institutions.
  — Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Forbes, 15 June 2021
• Subjects could range from reading and writing to philosophy and ethics.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2024
• The whole ethic of organ donation is based on the principle that the donors should give of their own free will and get nothing in return.
  — Laurie Kellman, ajc, 28 July 2021
• Prescott’s injury was close to being career-threatening and given his worth ethic, his return wasn’t in doubt.
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 2 June 2021
• But Martin inverts the basic ethic at work in dark fantasy: that the world’s cruel politics are not the point of the story.
  — Nicholas Pompella, National Review, 7 Aug. 2021
• Santorum said immigrants created a nation based on the Judeo-Christian ethic from a blank slate.
  — Mark Kennedy, USA TODAY, 23 May 2021
• Like her son, Bozeman-Brown rose early and stayed late, often working through holidays and vacations, and her ethic flowed down to her son.
  — Eli Lederman, Arkansas Online, 20 June 2021
• Take the emergence of new roles like ethics officers, AI trainers and data scientists — these positions didn’t exist just a few years ago.
  — Justin Maier, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2024
• What culinary ethic or philosophy does Chef Frederick subscribe to?
  — Jeanine Barone, Forbes, 27 June 2021
• Read more about ProPublica’s approach to investigative journalism in our ethics code.
  — ProPublica, 7 Nov. 2024
• So that's kind of where the punk ethic seeped into the blues and the funk styling.
  — Alessandro Corona, The Enquirer, 9 Dec. 2022
• Readers commented on the taste, the ethics and the prices.
  — Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 8 July 2019
• Rose's place in the Hall of Fame is not a question of his achievements on the field, but his ethics.
  — David Mark, Washington Examiner, 9 Feb. 2020
• The ethics panel for the state of New York said the judge was not required to recuse.
  — ABC News, 2 June 2024
• This is the second lawsuit centered on the Niles ethics board.
  — Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 29 Mar. 2023
• Has anyone in the Trump White House gone through ethics training?
  — New York Times, 16 Feb. 2017
• Here, again, the market can create the demand for ethics.
  — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• Bronner said he was not opposed to a code of ethics but questioned the need.
  — Mike Cason, AL.com, 3 Jan. 2018
• The ethics of reuse and upcycling were imbued in the creation of all the pieces.
  — Rhonda Richford, WWD, 11 Aug. 2024
• It’s this ethic that’s kept him at the head of the Hollywood pack for more than two decades now.
  — Ben Court, Men's Health, 16 Nov. 2022
• But has his party called for any sort of ethics inquiry?
  — Maggie Mallon, Glamour, 8 Dec. 2017
• In ethics, at least, there’s a decent case that no one has improved much on them.
  — Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• Debunking will do no good — but ethics obliges us to least try.
  — Laurie Penny, Longreads, 12 July 2018
• Give us a flavor of his adventures and discuss the ethics of that trade.
  — National Geographic, 10 Mar. 2018
• My thought was, time out, that’s not at all what ethics officials do.
  — Dave Michaels, WSJ, 13 July 2018
• The trend dates back centuries, and the debate over its ethics has been ongoing.
  — Glamour, 10 Apr. 2019
• Body shame, as beauty becomes ethics, becomes shame of the self.
  — Heather Widdows, Time, 13 June 2018

Last Updated: 1 Dec 2024