How to Use mantra in a Sentence

mantra

noun
  • Watch the rest of Chrishell's mantra in the video above.
    Taylyn Washington-Harmon, Health.com, 21 June 2021
  • But there's a lot of love and support, and that's kind of the mantra.
    Jeff Ewing, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2021
  • The mantra is the same, the goals are the same, and the source material is the same.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 17 May 2024
  • My mantra for the end of the year is: Finish this year stronger than the last one.
    Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2023
  • This song is a mantra for bussing through the dark walls of your own mind.
    Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 11 July 2025
  • Daryl Wynne was marked by this mantra from a young age.
    Ebony Flake, Essence, 5 June 2024
  • For a while, as stocks zoomed higher, the mantra seemed to hold up.
    Caitlin McCabe, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2020
  • Their mantra is simple: Don’t tell me what to do, hence the name.
    Andy Kessler, WSJ, 8 Jan. 2023
  • And on Tuesday, the Lakers failed to live up to that mantra.
    Mark Medina, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2020
  • That mantra is in line with TM Roh’s blog post a few days ago.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 26 Jan. 2022
  • That’s the year-end tax mantra to help reduce your 2021 tax bill.
    Rhonda Abrams, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2021
  • My mantra for the second half : Don’t get caught up in the noise around rate cuts.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 1 July 2025
  • The shaman will call the dead body with, uh, some mantra and the dead body can walk by itself.
    Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Regardless of the size of your space, that’s a good mantra for all of us.
    Marni Jameson, orlandosentinel.com, 25 Dec. 2020
  • McComb’s mantra, and that of his staff, is that no child shall slip through the cracks.
    Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 2 Apr. 2025
  • That’s the mantra the Tigers have been abiding by all season long.
    Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Oct. 2020
  • That should be the A’s mantra for their efforts to build a new ballpark.
    Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Feb. 2021
  • Waste nothing is even more of a mantra in my house these days.
    Sunset Magazine, 26 Mar. 2020
  • This is the foundation to cooking and is the mantra of any good cook.
    Rebecca White, Dallas News, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Going back to its roots seems to be Meta's mantra this year.
    Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
  • And how that got on as the mantra that that's a Democrat slogan, that's not true.
    NBC News, 6 Dec. 2020
  • That’s pretty profound for me, that’s a bit of a mantra now.
    Byalicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 25 June 2024
  • The Maharishi, with whom the band briefly toured, gave my dad his mantra.
    Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2024
  • It’s all part of New Bedford’s mantra to go after the tough match.
    BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2021
  • The slogan has become a mantra for the Class of 2022, Ossege said.
    Emma Stein, Detroit Free Press, 20 May 2022
  • The mantra for the album was like, if your first instinct feels right, go with it.
    Ellise Shafer, Variety, 7 Feb. 2025
  • This seems to support the famous mantra — less is more.
    Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2020
  • It’s part of the team’s smart, tough, accountable mantra.
    Dan Labbe, cleveland, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Courtney Williams reiterated what has been a Lynx mantra all season.
    Mike Cook, Twin Cities, 15 July 2025
  • Overall, McIlroy performed above average in every aspect of his game, except for driving, which was his mantra throughout the round.
    Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 July 2025

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