How to Use object lesson in a Sentence

object lesson

noun

• His life story is an object lesson in how not to run a business.
• The film will be a masque and an object lesson.
  — David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
• The film will be a masque and an object lesson.
  — Harpers Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
• He is held up as a tragedy, a beacon of hope and an object lesson.
  — Richard PÉrez-PeÑa, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2018
• Bound’s ability to learn from a near miss may turn out to be an object lesson, too.
  — Dennis Drabelle, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2023
• Is this a kind of object lesson on the dangers of essay writing?
  — Deborah Treisma, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
• This case is an object lesson in how false claims and fake news can come close to destroying people.
  — Fox News, 1 Apr. 2018
• The 19th is an object lesson is how change demands change, and how to respond.
  — Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2021
• The Jazz's resilience can be an object lesson for the reeling Spurs now.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Feb. 2018
• Every day on set with #SeanConnery was an object lesson in how to act on screen.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 31 Oct. 2020
• These Tony Awards were an object lesson in how digital tactics can cut both ways.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2021
• Proposition 22 was an object lesson in how that could happen.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2021
• Yet in the case of the Times and the Bay of Pigs, the object lesson is not relevant.
  — W. Joseph Campbell, The Conversation, 2 Apr. 2021
• His career is an object lesson in the perils of coming first, and anyone in his position might have an axe to grind.
  — Thomas Page, CNN, 27 Jan. 2023
• Somehow this team manages each year to offer a new object lesson in the pitfalls of building around young pitching.
  — Jack Dickey, SI.com, 2 May 2018
• The last couple of months have provided an object lesson in how that uncertainty plays out.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2022
• The Ukraine invasion has been an object lesson in the risks of doing business with a rogue nation.
  — WSJ, 18 Mar. 2022
• Their history is an object lesson in the power and danger of reading itself.
  — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 21 June 2023
• But their story is also an object lesson in how history is written—who is included and who is not.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2020
• The evolution of movie titles, for example, is an object lesson in near-misses.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
• The entire process has been an object lesson in the pitfalls of making policy by ballot question.
  — The Editors, National Review, 8 Nov. 2023
• What to make of this relationship as an object lesson or a metaphor, as one senses Robinson conceived it?
  — Jordan Kisner, The Atlantic, 11 Sep. 2020
• And the stretch north of the Ferry Building that includes Pier 9 is an object lesson.
  — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Sep. 2022
• And the company’s recent years of press releases have been an object lesson in greenwashing.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 1 Dec. 2020
• The fourth quarter provided the Spurs an object lesson in the value of continuing to plug away.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Dec. 2021
• In the 25-year-old Murray, younger Spurs now see a living, breathing object lesson in hard work paying off.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Feb. 2022
• The vote-a-rama was thus, in itself, an object lesson of what was achievable in a 50-50 Senate.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 7 Aug. 2022
• The story of Canyons is an object lesson in what can happen when schools reopen in communities that are failing to contain the virus.
  — Kate Taylor, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2020
• The Pentagon’s approach is an object lesson in how not to make choices in crafting a defense strategy.
  — William Hartung, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
• Reading by the light of Yamanaka’s work, let this novel of terrible beauty be an object lesson in how to tell what is worth saving.
  — Literary Hub, 17 June 2025