mottoes
- plural of motto.
Example Sentences
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One of my mottoes was “aliveness over prowess.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2025
The team writing the mottoes for next year’s batch of Sweethearts has already developed a new theme aimed at that demographic sweet spot.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2023
We’ve broken quietude in new ways, re-examined what we thought we knew, carried phrases as mottoes, or leverage.
From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2021
On display you’ll find mottoes for the 1917 Negro Silent Protest Parade and the almost-exactly-100-year-old manuscript for a speech delivered by W.E.B.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 7, 2019
Family mottoes, touchstones, prayers of sorts, they boasted of honor and glory, promised loyalty and truth, swore faith and courage.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
