How to Use raison d'être in a Sentence

raison d'être

noun

• Art is his raison d'être.
• But such slashing doesn't seem to be the firm's raison d'etre.
  — Michelle Jarboe, cleveland.com, 25 Feb. 2018
• Best of Beauty is Allure's north star, our our raison d'etre, our Super Bowl.
  — Allure Editors, Allure, 18 Sep. 2020
• Now the group has been joined by Noam -- a religious party that's main raison d'etre seems to be homophobia.
  — Sam Kiley, CNN, 22 Feb. 2021
• His wife, six children, their spouses, and his fifteen grandchildren were his raison d'etre.
  — courant.com, 22 June 2019
• Surely Lisa's raison d'etre can't all be in their first-date scene, when she is made to mouth a shameless amount of historical background to the Iraq war to jog the audience's memory.
  — Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Dec. 2017
• This is yet another example of why this is an amazing time to be following the launch industry and the raison d'etre for this newsletter.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 22 June 2018
• Their latest venture is the boy band known as NCT, which seemingly has no boundaries and will result in multiple sub-groups, each with their own distinct raison d'etre.
  — Tamar Herman, Billboard, 4 July 2018
• In 2016, Son decided to make repeating that magic SoftBank’s raison d'etre.
  — William Pesek, Forbes, 13 May 2022
• The disproportionate burden borne by the disadvantaged is the raison d'etre of his foundation.
  — Annie Brown, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2021
• After months of street unrest and growing international isolation, Maduro has found a new raison d'etre in President Trump’s threat last month to use military force in Venezuela.
  — Rachelle Krygier, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2017
• As described by Corrections, evidence pointing to Bruton as a contraband courier formed the checkpoint's raison d'etre.
  — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 26 Apr. 2018
• Finally, fascist states are prone to wars, because members of the secret police and generals, whose raison d'etre is violence, are overrepresented in the ruling elite.
  — Alexander Motyl, The Conversation, 30 Mar. 2022
• The Environmental Protection Agency's entire raison d'etre, for instance, is safeguarding the environment.
  — Samuel Gregg, Star Tribune, 27 Jan. 2021