How to Use principle in a Sentence

principle

noun

• His investment strategy is based on the principle that the stock market offers the best returns for long-term investors.
• Throughout the movie, the guiding principle was not to make things pretty.
  — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 12 Oct. 2024
• One of the central principles of the Good Friday Agreement is that there is no single way to be Irish.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
• Humans have, and continue to develop techniques that can, in principle, detect when someone is lying.
  — Conor Feehly, Discover Magazine, 14 Apr. 2023
• In 1925, the infamous Scopes trial centered on whether the principles of evolution could be taught in public schools.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 30 Mar. 2023
• But the principle is the same: The power has to move to the people.
  — Andrew Blum, Popular Science, 8 Sep. 2020
• The same principle holds for the Just Stop Oil protests.
  — Itxu Díaz, National Review, 5 Nov. 2022
• In principle, the rule of law means that no one is above the law.
  — Hollie McKay, Fox News, 23 Dec. 2020
• The same principle applies to the even more vile Fuentes.
  — Dean Obeidallah, CNN, 27 Nov. 2022
• So what about the principle of equal pay for equal work?
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2017
• The principle has been in the news a few times recently.
  — Ciara Nugent, Time, 11 July 2018
• But the two sides had reached a deal in principle on the overall framework.
  — Josh Robbins, OrlandoSentinel.com, 2 July 2018
• This has been a governing principle in the state of Texas of late.
  — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2019
• Since the crash, Liz has worked to carry on these principles.
  — Liz Dufour, Cincinnati.com, 4 May 2017
• Both sides agreed in principle to the plan Biden announced on May 31.
  — Ravi Nessman, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024
• It is built on a principle that the people have a right to hold power to account in the open.
  — Olivia Harrison, refinery29.com, 8 Jan. 2021
• The guiding principle would be to try to save the greatest number of lives.
  — Mollie Simon, ProPublica, 7 Sep. 2022
• The principles are the same: dry powder, mix with water.
  — Sophie Wirt, Allure, 31 July 2018
• More important is what the deal says about the principles of both camps.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2023
• Maybe the courts weren’t a forum of principle after all.
  — Ian MacDougall, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
• Remember the agreement in principle on how to pay for the bill weeks ago?
  — Lauren Fox and Phil Mattingly, CNN, 21 Oct. 2021
• Sure, there’ll be some nice statements of principles agreed to.
  — Oren Dorell, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2018
• Cities have long used some of these principles to manage and avoid floods.
  — The Arizona Republic, 26 May 2023
• But then the holes in principle became apparent, as did the holes in his boss.
  — Peter Grier, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Apr. 2018
• Treat this recipe as a principle, have a go, then why not come up with your own combos?
  — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2023
• The firm plans to make a decision in principle in mid-to-late summer on whether to push ahead.
  — Jean Eaglesham, WSJ, 24 June 2022
• This is still a work in progress, but our guiding principle is — and one of the things that spurred us to do this — is that the artists should own their work.
  — Frank Digiacomo, Billboard, 30 Sep. 2024
• The Chiefs built their offense around this very principle.
  — Jim Chairusmi, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2020
• Nepotism, to start with, is a prime Trumpian principle.
  — Emily Jane Fox, The Hive, 4 Oct. 2017
• Older kids can master principles like gravity and engineering with this Ravensburger Gravitrax marble set.
  — Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 8 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024