How to Use zeitgeist in a Sentence

zeitgeist

noun

• His songs perfectly captured the zeitgeist of 1960s America.
• Then there’s the zeitgeist, which seems to be on the side of the 1970s.
  — Tanya Dukes, Robb Report, 6 Nov. 2021
• Calvin helped define the zeitgeist of the New York ’90s.
  — Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 22 Dec. 2018
• This story has stayed sort of in and out of the zeitgeist over the past 30 years.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2024
• At the same time, the ad’s narrative captures the zeitgeist of the times.
  — Cassie Werber, Quartz, 16 Jan. 2023
• But none of them have quite captured the zeitgeist in the way that Game of Thrones did.
  — Adam Epstein, Quartz, 3 Nov. 2019
• Don’t mistake this decade’s poll for a mere shift in the zeitgeist.
  — Armond White, National Review, 7 Dec. 2022
• De Waal’s own work with chimpanzees in the 1980s loaned the term alpha male to the zeitgeist.
  — Rebecca Giggs, The Atlantic, 6 May 2022
• In the short term, what does the company have in store to build off the Olympic zeitgeist?
  — Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 18 Aug. 2024
• It’s about catching the zeitgeist and finding the right time.
  — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 20 Apr. 2021
• Now even Mordhau's come and gone from the zeitgeist, so…we'll see.
  — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 10 June 2020
• The dark side of corporate office life seem to be in the zeitgeist.
  — Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 June 2022
• Despite that, The Warriors went on to find a place in the pop culture zeitgeist in the decades since.
  — Rachel Raposas, People.com, 28 Oct. 2024
• The traps became the franchise, at least in the culture zeitgeist.
  — Emily Palmer Heller, Vulture, 14 May 2021
• With Baz Luhrmann's biopic hitting theaters, the king of rock 'n' roll is back in the zeitgeist.
  — Marykate Boylan, Town & Country, 3 July 2022
• The zeitgeist is a slippery thing to cling to; no one knows that better than a pop star.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 24 Aug. 2020
• And bubble hems are the latest trend to reach 2023’s style zeitgeist.
  — Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 8 Mar. 2023
• Most of the stuff that’s happening is not the mainstream zeitgeist at all.
  — Sumeet Kulkarni, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2022
• Artists have a unique way of tapping into the zeitgeist and getting right to the heart of the matter.
  — Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 4 Dec. 2024
• In short: The idea of ethics reform for the high court has penetrated the zeitgeist.
  — Simon Lazarus, The New Republic, 16 Mar. 2023
• The project made millions and went on to become one of the most popular teen movies in the zeitgeist.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 26 June 2020
• The shift in the book club’s tastes was a reaction to the anxious zeitgeist, says one of its members.
  — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2020
• Now, the air fryer holds a coveted spot in the kitchen zeitgeist.
  — Curtis Silver, Forbes, 22 June 2021
• In the end, it was not properly designed and failed to function as a way to gauge what’s in the zeitgeist.
  — Belabbes Benkredda, Quartz, 21 June 2019
• And many of those DLSS-compatible games have long since passed in and out of the gamer zeitgeist.
  — Chris Stobing, PCMAG, 30 Mar. 2022
• Given the current zeitgeist, does this feel like the right cause to align ourselves with?
  — Andy Katz-Mayfield, Quartz at Work, 25 Nov. 2019
• The book’s title became a major part of the zeitgeist during the pre-Time’s Up era.
  — Lindzi Scharf, latimes.com, 3 July 2019
• The current zeitgeist is full of celebrity-run brands, and from time to time, there are always some that hit it out of the park.
  — Ali Faccenda, Peoplemag, 20 Sep. 2024
• Still, the film pointedly nabbed the big prize over Wicked, a smash hit that has dominated the zeitgeist since Thanksgiving.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2025
• What makes this comedy a permanent fixture in the zeitgeist is its kaleidoscopic look at the end of high school, never just focusing on any one clique, but, instead, daring to try and capture them all.
  — Brian Smolensky and James Mercadante, EW.com, 27 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 25 Feb 2025