How to Use object lesson in a Sentence

object lesson

noun

• His life story is an object lesson in how not to run a business.
• Yet in the case of the Times and the Bay of Pigs, the object lesson is not relevant.
  — W. Joseph Campbell, The Conversation, 2 Apr. 2021
• In Leaf’s hands, Gia isn’t a case study or object lesson.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
• He is held up as a tragedy, a beacon of hope and an object lesson.
  — Richard PÉrez-PeÑa, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2018
• The Jazz's resilience can be an object lesson for the reeling Spurs now.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Feb. 2018
• The 19th is an object lesson is how change demands change, and how to respond.
  — Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2021
• And the stretch north of the Ferry Building that includes Pier 9 is an object lesson.
  — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Sep. 2022
• Is this a kind of object lesson on the dangers of essay writing?
  — Deborah Treisma, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
• Bound’s ability to learn from a near miss may turn out to be an object lesson, too.
  — Dennis Drabelle, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2023
• Here, too, gay men can be deployed as an object lesson.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 19 June 2019
• The vote-a-rama was thus, in itself, an object lesson of what was achievable in a 50-50 Senate.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 7 Aug. 2022
• This case is an object lesson in how false claims and fake news can come close to destroying people.
  — Fox News, 1 Apr. 2018
• The Ukraine invasion has been an object lesson in the risks of doing business with a rogue nation.
  — WSJ, 18 Mar. 2022
• Every day on set with #SeanConnery was an object lesson in how to act on screen.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 31 Oct. 2020
• The letter earned him, at 18, a visit to Nixon in the Oval Office and an object lesson in the benefits of insistence.
  — Lisa Miller, Daily Intelligencer, 29 Oct. 2017
• In the 25-year-old Murray, younger Spurs now see a living, breathing object lesson in hard work paying off.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Feb. 2022
• The kurta was made by Prada, and Mr. Ahmed’s decision to wear one was an object lesson in the politics of style.
  — New York Times, 15 Dec. 2021
• To push to the brink and then spectacularly crash was an object lesson in what a 100-mile course could do to the overly ambitious.
  — New York Times, 11 Feb. 2020
• These Tony Awards were an object lesson in how digital tactics can cut both ways.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2021
• His career is an object lesson in the perils of coming first, and anyone in his position might have an axe to grind.
  — Thomas Page, CNN, 27 Jan. 2023
• Covid-19 taught every San Franciscan an object lesson in the degree to which the fate of the individual remains bound up with the fate of the group.
  — Daniel Duane, Wired, 11 Aug. 2020
• The fourth quarter provided the Spurs an object lesson in the value of continuing to plug away.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Dec. 2021
• Somehow this team manages each year to offer a new object lesson in the pitfalls of building around young pitching.
  — Jack Dickey, SI.com, 2 May 2018
• Reading even one return — let alone the 250 or so that the Rancho students put their hands on last year — is a kind of object lesson in personal finance.
  — Ron Lieber, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2024
• The story of Canyons is an object lesson in what can happen when schools reopen in communities that are failing to contain the virus.
  — Kate Taylor, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2020
• What to make of this relationship as an object lesson or a metaphor, as one senses Robinson conceived it?
  — Jordan Kisner, The Atlantic, 11 Sep. 2020
• Two recent incidents offer object lessons on how not to.
  — Don Yaeger, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
• Proposition 22 was an object lesson in how that could happen.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2021
• The world moves on, making him an object lesson in the powerlessness of his most fervent supporters.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 17 Jan. 2018
• Fulbright’s life is an object lesson about global-mindedness in an age of political rancor.
  — Charles King, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2021

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024