How to Use principled in a Sentence

principled

adjective

• She took a principled stand on funding public education.
• The principled case, now and then, is summed up in three words: Trump’s a crook.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2019
• But it must be done in a principled and clear-eyed way.
  — Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 23 Aug. 2021
• Anne was a principled young women who loved her friends, and her school work, and of course Gilbert Blythe.
  — Joanna Robinson, VanityFair.com, 10 May 2017
• Their four lonely votes against the bill were portrayed as a principled stand, with more to come.
  — Lisa Mascaro, chicagotribune.com, 10 July 2019
• But like the principled chief before him, Cobb refused to sell.
  — Michael Lapointe, The Atlantic, 11 May 2018
• He was raised to be humble, so he's reserved, and principled.
  — Simon Abrams, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Nov. 2017
• Thank you for running a principled race & for getting in the arena.
  — Tom Benning, Dallas News, 2 Jan. 2020
• An inspiring account of how and why to live a principled life, spiced with Pan-Asian recipes.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 4 Aug. 2024
• There are very few super principled people who are willing to do the right thing at great cost.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 20 Apr. 2023
• Just one has thrown all of that away to do what was unpopular but principled.
  — The Economist, 26 Oct. 2017
• Mark Felt wasn’t the glamorous, high-principled hero some expected Deep Throat to be.
  — Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic, 31 May 2017
• But the tech firms can afford to take such a principled stand because they are shut out of China's mainland.
  — Grady McGregor, Fortune, 9 July 2020
• Change will come through principled engagement—not through storming out of the room.
  — Erika Guevara-Rosas, Time, 20 June 2018
• Along the way, the hard-nosed and principled leader was also a minor league manager, scout and bullpen coach.
  — Paul McCardell, Baltimore Sun, 31 Jan. 2024
• Along the way, the hard-nosed and principled leader was also a minor league manager, scout and bullpen coach.
  — Paul McCardell, Baltimore Sun, 28 Mar. 2024
• In the 2010s, emo gets both smaller (waves of principled revival bands) and bigger (rap stars who worship Paramore).
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
• Our purpose is to join in creating a just and principled nation and world.
  — Washington Examiner, 15 Dec. 2023
• Toomey is a thoughtful and principled guy who, like Rob Portman of Ohio, is choosing to leave the Senate of his own accord.
  — Keith C. Burris, Star Tribune, 21 Feb. 2021
• Colleagues on both sides of the aisle described him as principled and didactic.
  — Ovetta Wiggins, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2022
• Are House Democrats principled patriots fighting for the right against tough odds?
  — John Kass, Twin Cities, 11 Dec. 2019
• So these activists’ principled stand may serve them well on Sundays—but just not on Election Day.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 23 June 2023
• In some not-quite-definable way, the film itself is all of a piece with Rogers’s principled gentleness.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 June 2018
• Renowned astronomer Galileo Galilei has been lauded for centuries for his courageous principled stance against the Catholic Church.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 22 Sep. 2018
• The Senate should confirm him because there is no principled reason to vote no.
  — David C. Frederick, Twin Cities, 12 Mar. 2017
• The time has come for a principled stand against this adorable scourge, before some reckless studio madman greenlights a spinoff.
  — Charles Bramesco, Esquire, 8 May 2017
• Pence, a born-again Christian, has also proven himself to be far less principled than Bannon might have feared.
  — Abigail Tracy, The Hive, 10 Oct. 2017
• The only principled response is to treat it as the couple’s joint decision.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2023
• In a lengthy May 31 interview on the streaming platform Rumble, Crawford described his decision as both a principled and strategic decision.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 17 June 2024
• Its foreign policy would become less principled, more zero-sum.
  — Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 27 May 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024