How to Use treatise in a Sentence

treatise

noun

• To me, this book felt like a treatise on the power of words.
  — Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 1 Aug. 2019
• Not many 6-year-olds ask why the sky is blue and then get a treatise on the physics of light waves.
  — Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Nov. 2022
• This is not just a rah rah treatise on how to start and run a business.
  — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 22 June 2021
• Philpott brings her own special blend of dread and hope to this treatise on the fragility of life.
  — Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2022
• The journalist in me wanted to get to the bottom of this crazy treatise on life and art.
  — Michael Heaton, cleveland.com, 10 May 2017
• And Stoller’s treatise is a good place to start in thinking through that question.
  — Kyle Sammin, National Review, 15 Oct. 2019
• In his lengthy treatise, McIntosh made a case for this emerging field of medicine.
  — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 23 Dec. 2021
• Yes, this is probably a treatise about the good old days by an old guy who lived them.
  — Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2023
• In the final book of the treatise, Kepler urged the composers of his era to set his equations to music.
  — Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• Roberts, a food law scholar, published the first major treatise on the field in the United States this year.
  — Tanner Walters, SI.com, 8 Aug. 2017
• The title was a misnomer, as this two-volume treatise clocked in at over 700 pages.
  — Joshua Kendall, Time, 4 Apr. 2020
• Yes, that can be done, but remember, this a lazy farmer treatise.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 30 May 2021
• The Gita is a treatise of Arjuna’s tryst with self-doubt.
  — K.n.c., The Economist, 16 Aug. 2019
• What’s Book 2? Book 2 is a treatise, or manifesto-type thing.
  — WIRED, 8 Aug. 2023
• For first-time readers of the Nicomachean Ethics, though, the treatise is full of disappointments.
  — Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• The book was created as not a stodgy treatise written in the English of the past for academics who might see it as some kind of relic.
  — Mara Katz, Ars Technica, 2 Nov. 2019
• But not until the hook hits does the song really kick into high gear, and become an avant-garde dance-pop treatise for the ages.
  — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 22 Nov. 2022
• But like every region and people, Vance's book is far from the only treatise on Appalachia, nor the best one.
  — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 16 July 2024
• That speaks to Williams’s treatise that pitchers have such an advantage.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Apr. 2021
• In a time of division in the church, a technical treatise on such a delicate matter might not have been the best way to go.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Apr. 2022
• The treatise is one of the great meditations on the meaning of life in all its vicissitudes.
  — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 12 July 2018
• Though the treatise has not survived, Roman copies of Polykleitos’ sculpture live on.
  — Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 May 2022
• Nietzsche even wrote a whole treatise on who to use and abuse history.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 2 Apr. 2021
• Mike had been ignoring my treatise and his googling had turned up a news story about an incident at the gallery.
  — Namwali Serpell, Harper's Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
• And his treatise on friendship and old age provides wisdom and insight.
  — New York Times, 23 Aug. 2019
• Strange Way of Life is Almodóvar’s first Western and his most profound treatise on love, stated as a way of life.
  — Armond White, National Review, 27 Oct. 2023
• But now his treatise comes with a prickle, an asterisk.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 18 May 2022
• In 1698, British doctor John Floyer wrote a treatise on asthma, the first major work focused on the disease.
  — Sara Harrison, Wired, 21 Sep. 2021
• In early modern Europe, readers had to find, buy, and potentially translate Kramer’s deranged treatise (it was written in Latin) to fall under its spell.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2024
• This astute treatise by an Austen scholar questions the deep association in popular culture between the beloved writer’s work and happy endings.
  — The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024