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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The 1644 treatise takes its peculiar name from the Areopagus, a rocky mount just below the Acropolis in Athens.
    John J. Miller, WSJ, 6 May 2022
  • The good news is that the book is not simply an academic treatise and will appeal to general readers.
    Terry W. Hartle, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Sep. 2020
  • It’s not a treatise but a lark and a provocation — and a work of blatantly commercial theater.
    New York Times, 3 Oct. 2021
  • In 1702, Sir John Floyer published a treatise on the benefits of cold bathing, a practice that was then still mostly unknown to the English.
    Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2020
  • The Roundtable, in its talent treatise, doesn’t mention tax policies.
    BostonGlobe.com, 9 Oct. 2021
  • Gillian wrote her memoir in the last two years of her life, squeezing in, as well, two philosophical treatises and at least one new love affair.
    Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023

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