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

The world is endlessly fascinating, and getting more so in this era of rapid change in technology, cultural mores, and politics.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025

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 mores of suburbia now dictate that crabgrass must go at whatever cost.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson