How to Use rational in a Sentence

rational

adjective

• This is not to say that all states are rational all the time.
  — Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
• The one thing that kept him rational on Tuesday: The Rangers came back to win the game.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 3 May 2023
• On the one hand, my rational adult self understands that this is the end.
  — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 26 May 2023
• The Jeffries suggestion was one of the few rational ideas to come out of this mess.
  — WSJ, 27 Oct. 2023
• Often in the space of a couple of hours, a rational decision can be formed and agreed to.
  — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2022
• In the process, the industry has got back to a more rational managing of old and new media in the pivot to the streaming era.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2023
• This means that the part of the brain that makes rational decisions and balances thought and emotion is offline.
  — Meghan Leahy, Washington Post, 5 July 2023
• So could there be a number system in which pi is rational?
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2024
• In becoming a more rational machine, the Accord is now a better fit for the times.
  — Mike Sutton, Car and Driver, 24 Feb. 2023
• Some experts argue that the free-for-all is not a rational way to birth truly creative ideas.
  — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Nov. 2023
• This is the kind of study that, in a rational world, would act as an owner’s manual for a city with too many parking places and not enough beds.
  — Curbed, 29 Nov. 2023
• Talking things out with a friend who's less tangled up in the weeds can reconnect you with your rational side.
  — Chicago Tribune, 9 Nov. 2022
• For some, though, the appeal of extra passports is less rational.
  — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 3 Aug. 2023
• The version that will work for the people that will read the series as a completely rational story is that the tongue was found by the people of the village.
  — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 19 Feb. 2024
• Some people tend to believe movies are real, but for the most part, people are rational.
  — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2022
• Its cargo hold isn't as large as some of its rivals, but when has buying a Porsche ever been a rational choice?
  — Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 2 Feb. 2023
• Any rational person would agree that the border is too porous.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2023
• But deeper than that lies a picture of the struggle of being human and how things can come to the surface despite all the rational efforts in the world to stop them.
  — Marc Hirsh, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Oct. 2022
• There was a rational way to build an economy, and there were irrational ones.
  — Jason Blakely, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
• To save her daughter, a mother must leave her rational world views behind.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 16 Jan. 2023
• This is one where time must pass before a rational decision is made.
  — Ndaschel, oregonlive, 18 Aug. 2023
• Part of the spooky kick of Knock at the Cabin is that there's something rational about these ostensible villains.
  — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 1 Feb. 2023
• Or maybe just sip it, that certainly seems more rational.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 21 Aug. 2023
• The state's position was that such a law would need a rational basis for existing.
  — Anna Staver, The Enquirer, 1 Mar. 2023
• People — rational people, people who are not drunk or high — have said great stuff.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2022
• As the moon meets Mercury today, your intuition can send you strong signals that your rational mind doesn't agree with.
  — USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2023
• Few think anything will change as long as the loudest voices spew views that sound like hate and the rational ones stay quiet, residents said.
  — Arelis R. Hernández, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2024
• While a priest at Google was convinced, many AI experts consider this to be a less rational belief.
  — Reece Rogers, WIRED, 20 Apr. 2023
• Yet many rational people did so, urged on by years of rock-bottom interest rates.
  — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2023
• The anger seems, to me, to be like a separate force and part of American life right now, rather than something that's rational and tied to actual agreements.
  — Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 9 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024