How to Use tenet in a Sentence
tenet
noun-
Refusal to wear a mask is not a tenet of the Christian faith.
— NBC News, 27 Aug. 2021 -
That’s a step too far for most tenets cramped in Trump’s new small-tent GOP.
— Matt Laslo, WIRED, 13 Oct. 2023 -
Most scientists still agree with many of the tenets of this.
— Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Nov. 2024 -
One of the main tenets of your sign, Libra, is balance.
— Jacqueline Tempera, Women's Health, 31 July 2023 -
Since 2020, Musk has embraced many of the online right’s core tenets.
— Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2023 -
One of the core tenets of power dining, of course, is control, which omakase has in spades.
— Caroline Hatchett, Robb Report, 3 Sep. 2024 -
That tenet remains central to the next leg of her journey.
— Noor Lobad, WWD, 30 July 2024 -
But, in short, his system comes down a few basic tenets.
— Evan Grant, Dallas News, 9 May 2023 -
And these tenets have fueled Ms. Foundation's work for the last 50 years.
— Town & Country, 18 May 2023 -
And not to get too woo-woo, but that’s a tenet of capitalism [laughs].
— Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2021 -
Tracing the flow of Khmer art throughout the region has been a central tenet of his work.
— Jennifer Lu, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2021 -
For many men, this was already the basic tenet of dressing.
— Alex Apatoff, Peoplemag, 9 May 2024 -
Once that central tenet had been introduced, the next step was to build it from there.
— Diego Ramos Bechara, Variety, 15 Aug. 2024 -
The goal from the get-go was never to create a one-to-one recreation, so what was that driving tenet?
— Diego Ramos Bechara, Variety, 1 Mar. 2024 -
For most business leaders, this tenet is not the problem.
— Esther Choy, Forbes, 17 Apr. 2022 -
At the end of the day, the most important tenet of a healthy, clean lifestyle is sharing with others.
— Outside Online, 4 Apr. 2022 -
But for products like tires, that tenet doesn’t always hold.
— Michael Grabell, ProPublica, 3 May 2023 -
Another tenet of the SFA shorts menu is to infuse the dinner with a touch of whimsy.
— Lyndsay C. Green, Detroit Free Press, 26 Apr. 2022 -
The first tenet is the imperative of a strong, stable Russian state.
— Maria Snegovaya, Foreign Affairs, 16 Nov. 2023 -
Leopard print is another key tenet of the 'mob wife' style.
— Yola Mzizi, CNN, 1 Feb. 2024 -
For Mulligan, truth has long been a tenet of her career.
— Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 16 Apr. 2021 -
After all, many of us didn’t learn the tenets of money management in school.
— Jasmine Browley, Essence, 26 Jan. 2024 -
Early on in the run of Noma, foraging was a core tenet of the restaurant that helped define it in the food world.
— Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 29 June 2021 -
One of the major economic tenets of his plan isn’t working at all right now.
— Matt Viser and Meryl Kornfield, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Sep. 2023 -
One tenet of the Fairview City Schools’ vision is to learn differently.
— John Benson, cleveland, 24 Feb. 2021 -
In the decades since, a huge amount of evidence has shown that some of the core tenets of what Lovelock was saying are indeed true.
— Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 25 June 2024 -
The central tenet of the central tourbillon is that there can be no central hands.
— Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 8 Aug. 2024 -
The series of sonnets centers on Galileo and the way the Catholic Church charged him with heresy for claiming the earth moves around the sun, going against the tenets of scripture.
— Nina MacLaughlin, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2023 -
This reduces each cloud tenet’s carbon footprint by sharing these resources.
— Kevin Beasley, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024 -
The end of the high school football season also marks end of the competitive season for another key tenet of Wisconsin high schools: the marching bands.
— Maia Pandey, Journal Sentinel, 25 Nov. 2024
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