How to Use lesson in a Sentence

lesson

1 of 2 noun

• She took piano lessons for years.
• You can't go out to play until you've finished your lessons.
• Let that be a lesson to you—if you don't take better care of your toys they'll get broken!
• I've learned my lesson—I'll never do that again!
• The book is divided into 12 lessons.
• There are more lessons to learn.
  — Tim Reynolds, Twin Cities, 1 June 2026
• There are lessons to be learned.
  — Christian Clark, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2025
• So which of these lessons is right?
  — Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 9 May 2026
• Here are three of their best lessons.
  — Timeka Tounsel, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
• What lessons or scars did that leave?
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2026
• Some things are tests; some are lessons.
  — Magi Helena, Dallas Morning News, 17 Mar. 2026
• That was my big lesson out of that.
  — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 29 Mar. 2026
• The city needs to learn a lesson.
  — Andrea Nakano, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2026
• The lesson is not to avoid agents.
  — Brian Solis, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
• What life lessons are coming their way?
  — Maddie Hartley, Kansas City Star, 9 Oct. 2025
• Golf teaches you very good life lessons.
  — Brody Miller, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
• But that’s not the right lesson.
  — Big Think, 17 Oct. 2025
• There's a lesson here for all of us.
  — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 25 May 2026
• And there’s beauty in all of these lessons.
  — Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2026
• The girls didn't want the lesson to end.
  — Sari Hitchins, Parents, 8 Mar. 2026
• There were some deeper lessons, too.
  — Nicholas Thompson, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2025
• The lesson is how to make your own lip scrub.
  — Libby Smith, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2026
• Those lessons took hold this winter.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2026
• Full-day lessons are not offered.
  — John Meyer, Denver Post, 23 Oct. 2025
• This year brought deep lessons and profound growth.
  — Yasmeen Hamadeh, PEOPLE, 10 Jan. 2026
• There’s a lesson there to first do no harm.
  — Matt Peterson, CNBC, 30 Mar. 2026
• Either way, there will be lessons learned.
  — Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2026
• These lessons are what shape my outlook on my life.
  — Kenneth Okeke, Hartford Courant, 23 Mar. 2026
• And this is a great lesson for your teenagers to learn.
  — Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 19 May 2026
• There are timeless lessons to be learned from this episode.
  — Harold Holzer, New York Daily News, 8 Feb. 2026

lesson

2 of 2 verb

• Some brands have learnt that lesson the hard way.
  — Karen Gilchrist, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2025
• Democrats are battling among themselves over how, and whether, to lesson some of these curbs.
  — Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
• Some young workers may already be learning that lesson the hard way.
  — Preston Fore, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2026
• Western Maryland learned that lesson the hard way.
  — Bobby Zirkin, Baltimore Sun, 10 June 2026
• Now, the Democratic Party has learned that lesson the hard way.
  — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2025
• Oregon tried to lesson the load on Verdell the past few springs, with last year’s practices cut short before full contact any way.
  — oregonlive, 30 Mar. 2021
• The fluted barrel, besides adding a distinctive look to the gun, helps lesson the overall weight to just under 8 pounds.
  — Savage Arms, Field & Stream, 30 July 2020
• One travel expert learned that lesson the hard way while arriving in Tanzania after a red-eye flight.
  — Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 20 Dec. 2025
• The Pac-12′s daily, rapid-response testing will lesson the risk of those kind of outbreaks within a team.
  — oregonlive, 19 Sep. 2020
• In theory, the Pac-12′s greater resources and capability for frequent and rapid testing should lesson the risk.
  — oregonlive, 10 Sep. 2020
• Another $62,000 is for meal delivery and $42,000 has gone to lesson creation costs.
  — Imani Cruzen, Twin Cities, 28 Feb. 2026
• One unfortunate Tesla driver learned that lesson the hard way, milliseconds before perishing when his Autopilot failed to detect and brake for a semi truck directly in his path.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Mar. 2017
• Regents were deciding whether to drop four men’s sports -- indoor and outdoor track, gymnastics and tennis -- as part of the athletic department’s attempt to lesson the financial blow caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
  — oregonlive, 10 Oct. 2020
• Questions — and hopefully lessons Backcountry around the world are waiting for officials to release more information about what decisions Blackbird’s guides made leading into the tragedy.
  — Sacbee.com, 28 Feb. 2026
• To lesson their harmful impact on the environment, 35 Starbucks stores began charging customers who use the paper cups on Monday, February 26.
  — Suzannah Weiss, Teen Vogue, 27 Feb. 2018
• He’s marked as a dissident for responding with defiance to lesson plans mandated by federal authorities after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine that teach youngsters to become Russian nationalists.
  — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 29 Dec. 2025
• David Spade learned that lesson the hard way and spent the next two decades paying for it after his infamous Saturday Night Live joke making fun of Eddie Murphy's budding movie career in the mid '90s.
  — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Dec. 2025
• Even the mighty United States learned that lesson the hard way over the 22 years from 1949 to 1971, when Washington pretended that the Nationalist regime headquartered in Taipei constituted the legitimate government of mainland China.
  — David Frum, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2025