Sentence example with the word 'adage'

adage

ana, axiom, current saying, epigram, maxim, oracle, prescript, saw, sloka, text, wise saying

Definition n. a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people

Last update: March 28, 2018


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In this case the old adage that "two of a trade never agree" is clearly contradicted.   [noun]

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There must always be two parties to a quarrel, says the old adage.   [verb]

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Adages express general truth.   [noun]

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According to the old adage, "Give him an inch, and he will take an ell."   [Please select]

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Goes to prove the old adage: " you get what you pay for ".   [noun]

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The old adage ' never let the tax tail wag the commercial dog ' is certainly worth bearing in mind.   [noun]

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Simon's adage--TO EACH ACCORDING TO HIS CAPACITY TO EACH CAPACITY ACCORDING TO ITS RESULTS--finds its full and complete application.   [noun]

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Why, you know Tacitus saith, "In rebus bellicis maxime dominalur Fortuna," which is equiponderate with our vernacular adage, "Luck can maist in the mellee."   [noun]

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Property, forced into its first intrenchment, repudiates its old adage; justice, ashamed, retracts her maxims, and sorrow lowers her bandage over her blushing cheeks.   [noun]

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A curious friendship theirs must have been: a pointed illustration, indeed, of the old adage that extremes meet.   [noun]

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"_ "A native adage," whispered Stuart."   [Please select]

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