How to Use ideology in a Sentence

ideology

noun
  • He says that the election is not about ideology.
  • Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
    Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 20 Apr. 2018
  • This center will set us apart from the rest of the nation with new creative ideologies.
    Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al.com, 10 June 2019
  • They were not roped and tied by ideology when pragmatism was the best path to progress.
    Gov. Butch Otter, idahostatesman, 8 Jan. 2018
  • The current push to elect more women is just the pink flavor of the same old left-wing ideology.
    Alexandra Desanctis, National Review, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Trump didn’t invent the ideology that now goes by his name.
    David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Then risk progress for the sake of ideology or fidelity to their party.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 25 Aug. 2023
  • It’s the kind of book people need to read to make sense of the gender-ideology wave that has swept through the West.
    Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 1 Mar. 2021
  • As an ideology, Mather wants most of his hitters to spray the ball all over the field.
    Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 26 July 2022
  • Along with that, of course, comes the ideology of bringing slavery along with it.
    Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Part of that ideology has given Miss Pam wings over the years.
    Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Their anti-choice ideology has no place in my body, nor in any laws.
    Adele E. Zimmermann, Cosmopolitan, 1 Nov. 2017
  • And there’s a dichotomy of battling ideologies that didn’t exist in the movie.
    Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Frank was described as having no ideology and that being the scariest thing of all.
    Brian Porreca, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 June 2017
  • My sense is this was always way more about business than ideology for him.
    Albert Breer, SI.com, 2 July 2018
  • But at the end of the day, one of our two great parties has completely abandoned its ideology.
    CBS News, 10 Oct. 2021
  • While this bill had enormous effects, the ideology behind it had been decades in the making.
    Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Aug. 2020
  • That’s what all of those weapons are, that opposing ideology come to life.
    Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 July 2023
  • Opponents of her son’s racial ideology had threatened to protest in front of it.
    Kimberly Winston, Houston Chronicle, 12 May 2018
  • It’s that, anything that runs counter to your ideology?
    Andy Meek, BGR, 12 Feb. 2022
  • Just change things up — under the knife and with some hormones and a dose of transgender ideology.
    Damon Linker, TheWeek, 13 Mar. 2020
  • The class disdain comes from elites who ostensibly have an ideology from the left.
    WSJ, 2 Mar. 2022
  • And the only defense against its lessons is a hardened carapace of ideology.
    The Editors, National Review, 19 Apr. 2023
  • That means any ideology has a right to a display, even an abhorrent one.
    Matthew Malec, National Review, 27 Dec. 2023
  • People who say my ideology is this — yeah, but that changes.
    David Marchese Photo Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Polizzi says sexism and an embrace of right wing ideology cast Stewart from the race.
    Hartford Courant, courant.com, 11 May 2018
  • Pundits point to a rise in hateful ideologies and a decline in democracy.
    The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Apr. 2018
  • In the three European countries, the drop did not vary much by ideology.
    David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2021
  • Part of their success can be explained in their lack of any ideology that might prove divisive.
    Kyle Chayka, The Cut, 10 Oct. 2017
  • What also struck me about listening to Wayne was that his words were void of ideology.
    Fox News, 30 Mar. 2021

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'ideology.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: