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'virtue' in a sentence

Learn how to use 'virtue' with 12 example sentences.


virtue noun

: the quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong

: any admirable quality or attribute

: morality with respect to sexual relations

: a particular moral excellence


  • Patience is a rare virtue these days.
  • Showing your real feelings is not considered a virtue in Japan.
  • Humility is one of the seven holy virtues.
  • She became rich by virtue of hard work and good business sense.
  • She was in dire straits, but made a virtue out of necessity.
  • He spends all his time extolling her virtues.
  • Courage is an excellent virtue.
  • With the exception of virtue, nothing is more excellent than friendship.
  • Innocence, most often, is a blessing and not a virtue.
  • Discretion is a rare and important virtue.
  • He got the job by virtue of his father's connections.
  • The journalist was too upset to distinguish vice from virtue.
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