How to Use ism in a Sentence

ism

noun

• Cubism, Impressionism, and other artistic isms.
• If the public is in the mood for yahoo-ism, that’s what Haley will give them.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 9 Jan. 2020
• Here are some pithy Bolton-isms that are clear-eyed and have the advantage of being right.
  — Author: Cal Thomas | Opinion, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Mar. 2018
• One of the many McElwain-isms of the past two seasons centered on his team acting like dead fish.
  — Edgar Thompson, OrlandoSentinel.com, 16 Sep. 2017
• It’s, like, this Romney-ism 3.0, that says that half of the country are worthless takers?
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2019
• Now There's a disingenuous both-sides-ism to just about every idea the game puts forth.
  — Joshua Rivera, GQ, 2 Apr. 2018
• What- -about-ism is one of the weakest arguments even grade school debaters know about.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2023
• Best-of lists are generally a pile of fried baloney seasoned with a sprinkle of know-it-all-ism.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2022
• Naturally, the video was full of Will-isms — nuggets of wisdom that have made the Aladdin star famous.
  — Paula Rogo, Essence, 15 July 2019
• The Trump-ism of the health-care reform, the Trump-iest parts of it, were transparency in pricing, competition across state lines. . .
  — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 7 Mar. 2017
• There’s nothing says the business cycle has to be only focused on short term-ism.
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 30 May 2018
• Often referred to as the most socially acceptable ism, workplace ageism has been on the rise over the last decade.
  — Sheila Callaham, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2021
• This is of a piece with a distinctly European safety-ism that has dogged the vaccine program since the start.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 19 Mar. 2021
• In real- life, disdain for dog discharge was not an Otto-ism that Hanks can relate to.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
• Other nasty-isms afflict the campers in 1941: William, born a Jew in Lithuania, accuses his wife of anti-Semitism.
  — Bethanne Patrick, Washington Post, 6 June 2019
• Name an –ism, and Breezewood is likely the prime example of everything wrong with it.
  — Nic Rowan, National Review, 29 May 2021
• Here, our favorite Lagerfeld-isms surrounding health and above-the-neck upkeep.
  — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 3 Oct. 2017
• And, it must be said, the blithe status quo-ism of Mr Biden could be even more off-putting to Mr Sanders’s supporters than her wonkish pragmatism.
  — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
• This season has been littered with weak attempts at both-sides-ism that simply don’t hold water.
  — Laura Bradley, HWD, 7 Dec. 2017
• The comedy isn’t as gonzo but the essence of McGuane-ism is very much here: dry wit, wry confusion and prose as chiseled and striking as a Rocky Mountain butte.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2018
• But based on what October and, to this point, November have delivered, there now is the flip side of the aforementioned Spo-isms.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 18 Nov. 2019
• Hamid’s commitment to a liberal literary ethos veers close to a vague both-sides-ism.
  — Namwali Serpell, The Atlantic, 2 Aug. 2022
• My mother had drummed that into me, a sort of combination of Catholicism and Southern belle-ism.
  — Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 13 Dec. 2021
• But for me, entrepreneurial-ism and building start-ups is one of our values.
  — Bruce Rogers, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2021
• But, wrapped up in Pompeo's answer is a classic Washington case of having-your-cake-and-eating-it-too-ism.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 12 Apr. 2018
• There were Trotskyites, Maoists, Marxists and purveyors of many other isms.
  — George Melloan, WSJ, 14 May 2018
• Find some civility, reel in your Me-ism, give a damn about people other than yourselves.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 18 Apr. 2022
• Most of the doors open to reveal a Bob Ross-ism or meditation rather than a painting activity.
  — Katie Melynn, Peoplemag, 2 Dec. 2022
• The question now is whether Ailes-ism -- as channeled through Trump -- can be a successful governing approach.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 18 May 2017
• With Seattle now under zombie control at the hands of Fillmore-Graves, Ravi's search for a cure and vaccine for zombie-ism is now more dire than ever.
  — Phillip Molnar, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 July 2017

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024