How to Use virtuous in a Sentence

virtuous

adjective

• She felt that she had made a virtuous decision by donating the money to charity.
• The virtuous life isn’t easy – but true friends can help.
  — Tucker J. Gregor, The Conversation, 12 Feb. 2026
• The good guys are beyond virtuous and the bad ones, pure evil.
  — Stephanie Merry, The Denver Post, 31 Mar. 2017
• At school, none of the nuns were cruel, just stern and virtuous.
  — Marc Myers, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2018
• But why would something as virtuous as truth be a burden for some?
  — Rachel Elizabeth Cargle, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Jan. 2019
• The honey whole wheat are a tad more healthful for the virtuous among us.
  — Noelle Carter, latimes.com, 14 June 2018
• The honey whole wheat buns are a tad more healthful for the virtuous among us.
  — Noelle Carter, charlotteobserver, 6 July 2018
• Some of those reasons or motives are virtuous, and some are not.
  — Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 21 May 2026
• Proof that healthy eating doesn’t have to look virtuous or boring.
  — Rebecca Firkser, Bon Appetit Magazine, 5 Feb. 2026
• No virtuous young lady could be alone with a man to whom she was not related.
  — Andrea Park, Marie Claire, 28 Dec. 2020
• Or that her takeover of the therapy group as an angry army is a virtuous move.
  — Hillary Kelly, Vulture, 2 June 2021
• Quirks aside, a virtuous blend of on- and off-road performance.
  — Martin Padgett Jr., Car and Driver, 2 Aug. 2023
• Due process stood in the way of keeping the innocent and the virtuous safe.
  — Sheila Coronel, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
• May the new year bless you with goodness to abandon all vices and embrace all that are virtuous.
  — Woman's Day, 22 Dec. 2022
• Two, just like there is a vicious cycle, there is a virtuous cycle.
  — Anna Oakes, Quartz, 6 June 2023
• There is no better path to being virtuous.
  — Literary Hub, 10 Dec. 2025
• This goddamn pressure to always be the smart one, the virtuous one, is dumb.
  — Damon Young, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2022
• Be virtuous and get the melon and berries, or splurge on moist coconut cake with coconut crème.
  — Linda Bladholm, miamiherald, 31 May 2017
• The gesture felt defensive, as a virtuous fig leaf on the fair’s naked avarice.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 17 May 2021
• In a season like this, patience could shift from virtuous to hazardous.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 28 June 2020
• Yet, it was always told with an antidote to that, which was how good and virtuous the world is as well.
  — New York Times, 6 Sep. 2019
• Monday is a virtuous bowl of crunchy veg drizzled with peanut sauce eaten on a sunny stoop.
  — Alyse Whitney, Bon Appétit, 25 Feb. 2021
• There will be no final judgment in which the virtuous are given power and the wicked are damned.
  — Dylan Matthews, Vox, 1 June 2018
• Tell them to sit in their most virtuous uncomfortable chair and take a listen.
  — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 6 Dec. 2021
• The final girl is usually a virtuous virgin—hence the palate of white lace.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 13 Mar. 2024
• On the other hand, those who make it are upheld as virtuous and enlightened.
  — Adam Chandler, TIME, 21 Jan. 2025
• It is less frequently said that, in order for this to be true, that press must be both virtuous and useful.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 12 Nov. 2020
• What, Glaucon wondered, would cause a person who had this ring to be just and virtuous?
  — Paul Rosenzweig, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2026
• If so, Wynton Bernard might be the most virtuous person in sports.
  — Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2022
• Of course, this kind of virtuous cycle can’t occur in a vacuum.
  — David J. Kappos, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2026