How to Use rationality in a Sentence

rationality

noun

• My rationality squelched any impulse to let loose on the ice.
  — Morgan Korn, ABC News, 15 Feb. 2020
• But at least there was a smidgen of rationality in what Maddon said.
  — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 21 June 2017
• There is also no need to worry about the rationality of these states.
  — Moritz S. Graefrath, Foreign Affairs, 19 Nov. 2025
• Cook doesn't seem likely as a third, but there at least would be some rationality behind such a move.
  — Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 8 June 2023
• Of course, someone who is in love is not going to be in peak form where rationality is concerned.
  — New York Times, 3 Dec. 2019
• Christmas movies don’t have to abide by any standards of rationality.
  — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 15 Dec. 2020
• And, at his best, there is an icy rationality, even on the biggest stages, in the biggest moments.
  — Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2025
• But the mogul has never allowed himself to be hemmed in by the dictates of rationality.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 22 June 2017
• This seems to me as offensive to rationality as a saint shrieking into the air.
  — Christian Wiman, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
• This seems to me as offensive to rationality as a saint shrieking into the air.
  — Christian Wiman, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
• After the crash, the market entered a kind of golden age of rationality and calm.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 13 June 2023
• Humans as a species are very bad at applying rationality to their own emotions.
  — Megan Greenwell, Wired, 3 Mar. 2021
• How can there be any such thing as reliable information if there is no such thing as rationality?
  — Steven Poole, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2018
• This is where balance and ratios come in again, bringing rationality into the world.
  — Thomas Patier, Artforum, 27 Jan. 2026
• Really, all a rationality standard would ask is that states have a reason.
  — Emily Cooke, The New Republic, 6 May 2022
• There’s that element of loss that is visceral and not amenable to rationality.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2022
• This incredible pair of cat boots Apologies, but all rationality has fled in the wake of these cat boots.
  — Madison Durham, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2020
• In the semiconductor world, the job of restoring rationality to the supply chain falls to the foundries.
  — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 5 May 2021
• France has always been a realm of Cartesian rationality, of the abstract.
  — Rachel Donadio, The New York Review of Books, 24 June 2020
• Their strengths are rationality, competence and a lack of squeamishness.
  — Molly Young, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2022
• The winner proves the boldest, if most likely to allow hubris to overtake rationality.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 17 Jan. 2023
• The time is not for a knee-jerk reaction like a blanket ban, but at least introducing a little rationality in the field.
  — Kunal Sawhney, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2022
• The computer, which is the result of a five-year project, processes speech and is equipped with human-like thought and rationality.
  — Fox News, 19 June 2018
• Stories prey on our emotions, not our rationality, and in many cases, the former takes precedence over the latter.
  — Tim Brinkhof, Big Think, 3 Mar. 2026
• The drop is a harsh dose of rationality much needed in an environment that rewards big promises and falls prey to hype, investors said.
  — Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2022
• But as any game theorist will tell you, rationality is an assumption, not a guarantee.
  — Frank Holmes, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
• And the tendency to obsess over reason and rationality overlooks this fact.
  — Sean Illing, Vox, 4 Nov. 2018
• By noon, over 200 people were waiting in a line that stretched around the block, a line that showed no signs of tapering off with rationality.
  — Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 29 June 2017
• Newsom further revealed the limits of his rationality with his remarks on the high-speed rail boondoggle.
  — Sal Rodriguez, Oc Register, 9 Jan. 2026
• The arrival of an SS officer who, against all rationality and in spite of herself, rekindles in her the spark of love.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 16 May 2024