How to Use discourse in a Sentence

discourse

noun
Definition of discoursenext
Synonyms for discoursenext
  • He likes to engage in lively discourse with his visitors.
  • She delivered an entertaining discourse on the current state of the film industry.
  • The need for more plus discourse goes all the way to the top.
    — Lindsay Schallon, Glamour, 26 Aug. 2019
  • All that gets thrown out the window in a lot of the discourse.
    — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2022
  • But all of these achievements were lost to the discourse around the Slap.
    — Joshua Rothkopf, EW.com, 5 Apr. 2022
  • And the discourse in the country is very ugly across the board.
    — Fox News, 27 June 2018
  • Just check out the discourse about the video on Twitter.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 17 June 2019
  • The anti-Semitic tropes have no place in the discourse.
    — Eli Rosenberg, The Seattle Times, 6 Nov. 2018
  • Even Lil Nas X weighed in on the discourse with a troll of his own.
    — Time, 3 Sep. 2021
  • The timeline of this discourse is a slap in the face, truly.
    — Rasha Ali, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2021
  • There are thoughtful critiques of the show and the discourse around it to be made.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2021
  • The book seemed to break a dam in the royal public discourse.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Yet even if the backlash to the backlash is overblown, the discourse is a strange sign of progress.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 16 June 2021
  • Some of the discourse focussed on the semiotics of a slap versus a punch.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2022
  • So did the discourse around that movie surprise you at all?
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Apr. 2022
  • That is how deep in the culture the discourse in Black Twitter has been.
    — Jason Parham, Wired, 29 July 2021
  • That can get kind of lost in much of the vegan discourse.
    — Hazlitt, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Fair or unfair, the discourse falls on coach Todd Bowles.
    — David Humphrey, star-telegram, 25 Aug. 2017
  • For their part, Swift and Kelce are certainly aware of the discourse.
    — Shania Russell, EW.com, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Any discourse Wallen may have had seems to have been done out of public view.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 11 Aug. 2022
  • There should be no place for this kind of hate in our public discourse.
    — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 9 Oct. 2022
  • One of the things that the platforms are looking at now is this notion of healthy discourse.
    — Recode Staff, Recode, 14 July 2018
  • There’s just no place for that in our public discourse.
    — Li Zhou, Vox, 26 June 2018
  • But alas, that is not the tone that has prevailed in the popular discourse.
    — Maria Konnikova, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2012
  • This is the sense that now prevails in public discourse.
    — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 May 2022
  • The lack of discourse about bitcoin is something of a pattern.
    — Maya Kosoff, The Hive, 8 Dec. 2017
  • These questions have long been part of the public discourse.
    — Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2021
  • That’s 180 degrees from the frequent tone of Trump’s discourse.
    — Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
  • This alone has drowned out any hope of civil discourse.
    — Kevin Baker, New Republic, 15 Feb. 2018
  • That prompted Ren to go into a long discourse on the rise and fall of great powers.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2019

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