How to Use mores in a Sentence

mores

plural noun
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  • Hitchcock’s version was shaped in other ways by the mores of the time.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2020
  • On the one hand, social mores have changed in such a way that racists must be even more subtle.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Jokes fly from the get-go and much fun is had at the expense of Cold War mores, 3D thrills and all of the conventions of the sci-fi genre.
    — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 1 July 2022
  • This wasn't a case where the Court was going with the changing mores of society, no.
    — NBC News, 5 Dec. 2021
  • Without the bourgeoisie’s staid and starchy mores, there is no bohemia.
    — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
  • The film, in theaters now, is a charming and thoughtful take on love, class, and social mores.
    — Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 8 July 2022
  • Did the world and its mores change too quickly around Andrew Cuomo?
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2021
  • This witty novel about the haves and have-mores is Succession with a soul.
    — Shannon Carlin, Time, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The mores are a little different; the day-to-day life is different.
    — Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 22 Aug. 2021
  • But the pandemic seems to have accelerated a shift away from the workplace mores of the past.
    — Nedra Rhone, ajc, 13 Oct. 2021
  • The parallels between the mores of the 19th century and those of our era are hardly exact.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2022
  • Of course, societal mores shift and change over periods of time.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 15 June 2022
  • Bachmann once said that great writers always showed the mores of their times through portraits of women.
    — Dylan Byron, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2021
  • Much of the story is about how Luca and Alberto struggle to adapt to the strange social mores of the fishing village.
    — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 June 2021
  • Out are the handshakes, hugs and kisses on the cheek (a bedrock of Southern European cultural mores).
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2022
  • These changes have occurred because of changes in social mores, the economy and gender roles.
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 10 June 2021
  • The show mixes the mores and costumes of the mid-19th century with today’s youth-culture tropes, and the result is oddly moving.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2021
  • Workplace perks and relaxed corporate mores were treated as metonyms for ethics and ideals.
    — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 15 June 2021
  • Here, Hamm plays a no-nonsense bureaucrat in this satire of corporate mores.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 8 June 2022
  • And, in a post-MeToo society, where mores have shifted so quickly, is our lot really so bad?
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Without local guides to language and mores, more Americans would have died.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Fifty years after he was born, laws and public mores have changed, with new acceptance of unwed mothers.
    — CBS News, 21 Mar. 2021
  • Wyoming, then struggle with society’s mores and their own conflicted feelings over the next 20 years.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 26 Mar. 2021
  • Though accepted in ancient times, the practice is clearly at odds with modern mores.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Perhaps the best example of a social network whose mores are now working against it is Meta, née Facebook.
    — Kira Bindrim, Quartz, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Having conducted research in the Black belt for almost two decades, Johnson was able to trace these changing mores over time.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2021
  • The show celebrates Waffles’s frantic willingness to conform to the mores of a diverse and foreign world.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2021
  • Biden, whose record now is the product of 50 years in public office, often reflected the mores of the era, but those sometimes don’t look quite right when seen through today’s lens.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 26 Apr. 2022
  • In Judy & Punch, witch trials are used as a way to deter any behavior that deviates from social mores.
    — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 8 June 2020
  • It is used to pass down family history, social mores, and the worldview of their communities from one generation to the next.
    — Chanté Griffin, Good Housekeeping, 19 Dec. 2022

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