How to Use morale in a Sentence

morale

noun
  • The team is playing well and their morale is high.
  • The President's speech boosted the morale of the troops.
  • Those kinds of people can bring down the morale of the whole team.
    Gili Malinsky, CNBC, 26 Feb. 2025
  • The stuff that picks up everyone’s morale at the end of the day.
    Breanna Wilson, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2021
  • The morale in the agency has changed with all the losses, Loftis said.
    oregonlive, 20 Oct. 2021
  • The fan was trying to support and lift morale for the team.
    Robert F. Moss, Southern Living, 15 Sep. 2024
  • And there was enough of it to buoy our flagging morale.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023
  • The morale and the feeling of the guys from the very beginning was very, very good.
    oregonlive, 1 Apr. 2023
  • The streets were dirty and grimy, crime ran rampant and morale was at an all-time low.
    Jack Kelly, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Amid all of this, staff attempt to boost the morale of their young patients.
    Time, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Others fretted over how low morale was on the front lines.
    Phil Wahba, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2022
  • And that really seems to be the issue right now for the hitters — morale.
    Julian Baron, Baltimore Sun, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Ariely’s lab has lost two of its biggest funders, and morale is low.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2023
  • All of them have since helped reduce Bridger's scarring — and bring back his smile and morale.
    Joelle Goldstein, PEOPLE.com, 30 July 2021
  • The two practices a day are long and hot, a necessary grind to boost morale and prep for the season.
    Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al, 23 June 2022
  • To say Sam’s morale is in the toilet would be generous.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 27 Oct. 2024
  • And so just recruitment alone with the morale and the way that the world is right now has been really rough.
    Luke Barr, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2023
  • But some of them will, and their colleagues who stay will suffer an even greater blow to morale.
    Stephen Noonoo, The New Republic, 2 May 2022
  • The staff morale is very subdued, and no one talks to anyone about anything.
    Roxane Gay, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2021
  • Doing the climb with one of my closest friends made the time go by pretty quickly and helped keep the morale up.
    oregonlive, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Here Local 11 union for the hotel workers, says that the union hired a band for marches to boost morale.
    Helen Li, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Why couldn’t the United States do something similar to boost the morale in psych wards?
    Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Many artist-run galleries of this era have since shuttered, chased out by high rents and the low morale that can come with them.
    Jennifer Wilson, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Investing in ways to boost morale will be paramount in 2023.
    Jennifer Reimert, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Still, morale may be Ukraine’s only hope in Pokrovsk as Russian forces zero in on the town.
    Sebastian Shukla, CNN, 11 Sep. 2024
  • In a high-rise office in downtown Denver, a poster above the printer reads as a morale boost.
    Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Checking in on team morale is a great way to keep the momentum going.
    Peter Stewart, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
  • But morale problems, prompted in part by new state laws, are to blame for the hiring crunch, too, Vazquez said.
    Leslie Postal, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2022
  • The changes have taken a toll on the morale of state and local government workers.
    Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 25 July 2022
  • The losses, according to OG Anunoby, have not impacted team morale or confidence.
    Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 24 Apr. 2025

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