How to Use discourse in a Sentence

discourse

1 of 2 noun
  • 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
  • In the years since the NYU debate, mirror neurons have dropped from scientific discourse.
    Quanta Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Aside from the TikTok discourse, Alyssa took to the Stanely team to chat with a brand spokesperson about the history and present state of the brand, given its past few years in the social media spotlight.
    Alyssa Brascia, Peoplemag, 11 Apr. 2024
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discourse

2 of 2 verb
  • She could discourse for hours on almost any subject.
  • That book opens with a group of Cambridge youths discoursing prettily on the existence of a cow on a riverbank.
    Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Backed by a five-piece band, Janelle McDermoth discourses on life, death and the arguable usefulness of art.
    Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2020
  • In his weekly addresses to the nation, Gen. Prayuth has discoursed on subjects ranging from the best way to cook rice to gardening tips.
    James Hookway, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2016
  • Harassment, even if technically not against the law, is wrong and corrosive to discourse.
    Arkansas Online, 6 Sep. 2020
  • Lately, I’ve also written a lot about free speech, academic freedom, and norms around discourse on college campuses.
    Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2015
  • Those qualities reflected not just in the appearance of, or discourse around, these cultural products, but in the execution of the products themselves.
    Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Feb. 2023
  • In the audience plump dignitaries in bright orange turbans sat comfortably on white leather armchairs, discoursing on the spectacle.
    The Economist, 25 Oct. 2019
  • Shaffer's play opens with Lettice Douffet, a classically quirky old-lady character, discoursing on the history of a stately British home.
    Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 7 June 2017
  • In a 2016 article, Krauze discoursed on populism: The term has different meanings, or at least overtones, in different regions of the world and in different political traditions.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 6 Mar. 2020
  • Knights, serfs, monks, men-at-arms, artisans, and shopkeepers traveled these pungent ways, discoursing loudly in decayed Latic and foreign tongues ranging from English to Syrian.
    Bruce Dale, National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019
  • But like art made in other arenas, prison art exists in relation to economies, power structures governing resources and access, and discourses that legitimate certain works as art and others as craft, material object, historical artifact, or trash.
    Nicole R. Fleetwood, The New York Review of Books, 28 Apr. 2020
  • The most energetic ingredients in a Ken Burns documentary are the intervals of commentary, the talking heads of historians, sociologists, and critics coming at us in living color and discoursing volubly.
    Richard Alleva, Commonweal, 22 Feb. 2002
  • Clarke had discoursed knowledgeably on the implications of temperature for apples; it was too cool here for … Winesaps, or Granny Smiths, none of which mature promptly enough to beat autumn's first freeze.
    David Guterson, Harper's, October 1999
  • She could discourse for hours on almost any subject.
  • That book opens with a group of Cambridge youths discoursing prettily on the existence of a cow on a riverbank.
    Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Backed by a five-piece band, Janelle McDermoth discourses on life, death and the arguable usefulness of art.
    Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2020
  • In his weekly addresses to the nation, Gen. Prayuth has discoursed on subjects ranging from the best way to cook rice to gardening tips.
    James Hookway, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2016
  • Harassment, even if technically not against the law, is wrong and corrosive to discourse.
    Arkansas Online, 6 Sep. 2020
  • Lately, I’ve also written a lot about free speech, academic freedom, and norms around discourse on college campuses.
    Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2015
  • Those qualities reflected not just in the appearance of, or discourse around, these cultural products, but in the execution of the products themselves.
    Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Feb. 2023
  • In the audience plump dignitaries in bright orange turbans sat comfortably on white leather armchairs, discoursing on the spectacle.
    The Economist, 25 Oct. 2019
  • Shaffer's play opens with Lettice Douffet, a classically quirky old-lady character, discoursing on the history of a stately British home.
    Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 7 June 2017
  • In a 2016 article, Krauze discoursed on populism: The term has different meanings, or at least overtones, in different regions of the world and in different political traditions.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 6 Mar. 2020
  • Knights, serfs, monks, men-at-arms, artisans, and shopkeepers traveled these pungent ways, discoursing loudly in decayed Latic and foreign tongues ranging from English to Syrian.
    Bruce Dale, National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019
  • But like art made in other arenas, prison art exists in relation to economies, power structures governing resources and access, and discourses that legitimate certain works as art and others as craft, material object, historical artifact, or trash.
    Nicole R. Fleetwood, The New York Review of Books, 28 Apr. 2020
  • The most energetic ingredients in a Ken Burns documentary are the intervals of commentary, the talking heads of historians, sociologists, and critics coming at us in living color and discoursing volubly.
    Richard Alleva, Commonweal, 22 Feb. 2002
  • Clarke had discoursed knowledgeably on the implications of temperature for apples; it was too cool here for … Winesaps, or Granny Smiths, none of which mature promptly enough to beat autumn's first freeze.
    David Guterson, Harper's, October 1999

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