How to Use society in a Sentence

society

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  • The club's members are drawn from the ranks of high society.
  • We need to do more to help the poorer members of our society.
  • Poverty hurts society as a whole.
  • She was introduced to society at a formal reception.
  • Enter the teens, who are part of the society’s Youth Camp.
    — Tim Harlow, Star Tribune, 22 Nov. 2020
  • This stat alone is proof of the no-win norm that we, as a society, have been groomed to abide by.
    — Jessica Teich, Good Housekeeping, 23 Jan. 2021
  • And what might that mean for our society in the coming decades?
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 21 Aug. 2022
  • Or has society itself shifted away from the Mr. Bigs of the world?
    — Lorena O’Neil, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2024
  • The nonprofit rose society took the lead to fix things.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 30 Jan. 2024
  • This was the first step in a fight of many years to achieve justice and build a civil society.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The speed in which our society has changed is alarming.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 2 Sep. 2022
  • But here’s the thing: Our society will be better off if Strays turns out to be a hit.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 15 May 2023
  • No one knows what screens will make of society, good or bad.
    — Nellie Bowles, New York Times, 6 July 2019
  • One of the symptoms of the disease is trying to draw from society.
    — Anna Kuchment, Dallas News, 30 July 2020
  • From their point of view, the only way to make society tick is to have a strong sense of the collective.
    — Randy Dotinga, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Feb. 2021
  • My late parents did not have the good fortune to come of age in a free society.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2019
  • The past few years have shone light on the deep cracks in the system and deep division in our society.
    — Bob Guccione Jr., SPIN, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Yet our society is still holding on to a lot of old ideas about who does what in the workforce and at home.
    — Kristen Bellstrom, Fortune, 9 July 2018
  • The thing that gives me hope is that there is a broad cross section of our society saying it’s wrong.
    — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 15 June 2020
  • The eye is drawn to the panorama, which seems to promise an utopian society.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2021
  • All this stress comes along at a time when parts of our society were already at risk.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 22 May 2020
  • This past year has seen some of our worst fears come true and revealed some of the ugliest parts of our society.
    — Time, 22 Mar. 2021
  • Penelope has got so much to hold onto, and Eloise wants to break out of society.
    — ELLE, 26 Mar. 2022
  • Then, the last part is, how does that benefit us as a society?
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Palmer learned why health care is a vital piece of society and helps keep troops ready.
    — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 30 May 2022
  • And society is always trying to add more to the bucket.
    — Peter Greene, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
  • So of course our society might have issues and flare-ups and people who resent the changes.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2022
  • To reach it, societies can take action along three lines.
    — Lucy Perez, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Williams suggests that the choice to be celibate places you at odds with some many segments of society.
    — Veronica Wells, Essence, 23 Sep. 2022
  • South Korea society is slow to change, but there's hope.
    — CBS News, 2 Jan. 2020

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