mores

Example Sentences

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Their ability to enact change depended on their willingness to defy current custom and mores.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026

Greenland’s social environment is also different from Denmark’s — its Indigenous population, which has its own social mores, is larger as a proportion of the population, and residents are concentrated in the giant island’s southwest.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2025

Though “Seven Veils” isn’t as undeniable and scathing as something like “Tár,” it’s a compelling study of the shifting belief about how great art is made, upended by contemporary mores.

From Salon • Mar. 12, 2025

The true power of the Oscars is as a televised time capsule — of the fashion of the time, the social mores and the evolution of an artist’s personal style.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2025

Why didn’t he just put the rumors to rest and say the sopho mores would have their crack at the varsity boat the following year, as usual?

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown