Example Sentences

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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

He has outfitted it with solar panels and inscribed it with positive mottoes, including “Always Be Compassion” scrawled across the hood.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2022

There he prints by letterpress, in two colors, greeting cards that combine old etchings and engravings with famous mottoes and sayings.

From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2022

She said it when I applied to every college I had seen mentioned in books—the ones with demure colors, Latin mottoes, things called quads.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 2, 2019

One of Bill Gates’s early mottoes for Microsoft, which he cofounded, was that the company’s goal was to give every individual “LAYF” — information at your fingertips.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman