How to Use moral in a Sentence

moral

1 of 2 adjective

• He felt that he had a moral obligation to help the poor.
• We're confident she has the moral fiber to make the right decision.
• The author avoids making moral judgments.
• Their behavior was not moral.
• Animals are not moral creatures and are not responsible for their actions.
• Each story teaches an important moral lesson.
• To me, that roar had the moral tone of the crowd at a bullfight.
  — Fay Vincent, WSJ, 27 Apr. 2022
• Let’s set aside, for now, the question of what the moral is.
  — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 20 Dec. 2019
• Even then, Rose is there with a save and the moral of the story.
  — Jeneé Osterheldt, kansascity, 19 Dec. 2017
• The moral of this story: A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.
  — Liza Corsillo, GQ, 1 Nov. 2017
• Now how does that drive me to a kind of moral right to show this film?
  — Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2023
• The whole moral of Katy Keene is to go after your dreams.
  — Kristin Vartan, EW.com, 28 Jan. 2020
• Though the role is too small, her Mollie is the story’s moral core.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Oct. 2023
• There should be no moral squishiness about any of this.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2023
• Each of us should be moral, rational, and follow the rules for the good of mankind.
  — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 6 June 2019
• Patton called on the jury to spare Saipov’s life on moral grounds.
  — Lauren Del Valle, CNN, 8 Mar. 2023
• The moral, of course, is never fall asleep in the art department.
  — Melissa Locker, Time, 20 Nov. 2019
• The moral of the story is you have been entrusted with much.
  — Peter San Nicolas, Ramona Sentinel, 6 Sep. 2019
• The moral of the story may be to stop gambling, but that doesn’t seem like any fun at all.
  — Jeff Stibel, USA TODAY, 10 June 2019
• Merkel has not always lived up to her billing as the West's moral bulwark.
  — Stephen Collinson With Caitlin Hu, CNN, 10 July 2020
• Paul didn’t want to talk about her or the divorce, newly moral.
  — Emma Cline, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
• There’s still part of him that’s calculating in a way that isn’t moral all the time.
  — Gary Levin, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2020
• The moral of the story is pretty simple: there’s no free lunch.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 17 Jan. 2020
• The air had gone out of the theology, but the moral cushions could still be plumped up.
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
• That is a lovely line, and one that seems to apply, in his moral universe, to all of us.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
• Jay Reece, in the end, had no real moral code other than what was good for him.
  — Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 17 July 2022
• And because there is a moral logic to that, the apartment dwellers do more than live by it.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 11 Nov. 2023
• In a world that has lost its moral compass, nature goes awry.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 14 Jan. 2022
• That’s the moral calculus: War is hell, and any depiction of it should be tinted with the reality of violence and death.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 12 Apr. 2024
• Ukraine also has a much higher rate of churchgoing than Russia, where actual piety seems to be rare—a fact that sits awkwardly with Kirill’s broadsides against the moral depravity of the West.
  — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2024

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moral

2 of 2 noun

• The moral of the story is to be satisfied with what you have.
• The moral here is: pay attention to the warning lights in your car.
• The author points to recent cases of fraud as evidence of the lack of morals in the business world.
• Socrates was accused of corrupting the morals of the youth of Athens.
• The moral of the story: Third-and-long isn’t any way to win.
  — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 2 Jan. 2022
• That goes for the Catholic morals and ethics that shaped me, too.
  — New York Times, 2 July 2019
• Then again, the moral of the story comes through loud and clear.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2024
• Stand firm and don’t let your morals go to the wayside for them.
  — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 25 Jan. 2024
• This cast is lovely, and that helps the moral of a show so much.
  — Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 6 Dec. 2022
• All of this to say, a system of morals isn’t enshrined in the game’s code.
  — WIRED, 20 Sep. 2023
• The rent is high, the food is bad, the dust is disgusting and the morals are deplorable.
  — Scott Howard, National Review, 18 July 2023
• The rents are high, the food is bad, the dust is disgusting and the morals are deplorable.
  — Longreads, 8 May 2018
• Really, the moral of the tale is: the more steps, the merrier.
  — Hannah Coates, Vogue, 17 Aug. 2023
• The moral of the story here: be more like Betty, not Bob.
  — George Deeb, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
• The moral of this one is easy to love—there's no one way to be a great mother.
  — Kara Thompson, Town & Country, 3 Mar. 2022
• As a moral to the story, this comes as a head-scratcher.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 14 Oct. 2021
• Mechem says the moral is an important one at this time of year.
  — Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2022
• In the episode, Gavin eschewed morals in favor of stroking his own ego.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 28 Oct. 2019
• The moral of the story is: Put on your seatbelt and enable your airbags.
  — Denis Mandich, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
• Washington is not a place to live in…the morals are deplorable.
  — Longreads, 8 May 2018
• The moral of the story is to take everything that happens on the field with a grain of salt.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2021
• The moral of the story seems to be that money isn't the most important thing in life.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2015
• The moral: don’t be dazzled by the prospect of an interest-free loan.
  — Jack Guttentag, Forbes, 2 June 2021
• Policing the morals' of Phoenix The coffeehouse raid wasn’t the only one of its kind in Phoenix.
  — Kyra Haas, azcentral, 28 June 2019
• The moral of this story is that there is more than one way to think about pickles.
  — Dorothy Dworkin, Sun Sentinel, 29 Sep. 2022
• Those are the ones, Fuller said, who have the freedom to care most about a company’s morals.
  — Byjane Thier, Fortune, 3 June 2023
• Maybe the moral of the story is to not pitch to Seattle’s Eugenio Suárez.
  — Dallas News, 5 June 2022
• Thus, Holi pays tribute to the moral of the myth: Good will always triumph over evil.
  — Madeline Nguyen, The Arizona Republic, 3 Feb. 2024
• The moral of the game was that bigger is not always better, and people seemed to get it.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
• She was turned into a saint so that her life could be turned into a moral.
  — Blair McClendon, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022

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