How to Use mantra in a Sentence

mantra

noun
Definition of mantranext
  • The mantra is the same, the goals are the same, and the source material is the same.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 17 May 2024
  • My mantra for the end of the year is: Finish this year stronger than the last one.
    — Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Daryl Wynne was marked by this mantra from a young age.
    — Ebony Flake, Essence, 5 June 2024
  • Their mantra is simple: Don’t tell me what to do, hence the name.
    — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 8 Jan. 2023
  • That mantra is in line with TM Roh’s blog post a few days ago.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 26 Jan. 2022
  • That’s the year-end tax mantra to help reduce your 2021 tax bill.
    — Rhonda Abrams, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2021
  • The shaman will call the dead body with, uh, some mantra and the dead body can walk by itself.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Jan. 2023
  • That’s pretty profound for me, that’s a bit of a mantra now.
    — Byalicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 25 June 2024
  • The Maharishi, with whom the band briefly toured, gave my dad his mantra.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2024
  • The slogan has become a mantra for the Class of 2022, Ossege said.
    — Emma Stein, Detroit Free Press, 20 May 2022
  • Read on for more deets on this star's healthy living mantras.
    — Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 13 Apr. 2023
  • With the January date set, the duo leaned into the mantra: New Year, new do.
    — Jackie Fields, Peoplemag, 15 Jan. 2024
  • This was the mantra of the Maryvale girls indoor track and field team this winter.
    — Alex Murphy, baltimoresun.com, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Simply ease those thoughts to the background and return to your mantra.
    — Corey Seymour, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Keep this mantra in mind when strength training over 40.
    — Marty Munson, Men's Health, 29 Mar. 2023
  • In the games, Wake repeats a mantra in his writing approach: The story must stay true to the genre.
    — Gene Park, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Watt sampled and looped the phrase, turning it into a mantra of sorts.
    — Jonathan Cohen, Variety, 8 Feb. 2022
  • But for now, BYU is sticking with the mantra that Conover could have thrown more, the game just didn’t dictate it.
    — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Nov. 2022
  • Keep in mind this key mantra when planting trees: right tree, right place, right way. 7.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The collection spans T-shirts, hoodies and bandanas with the team’s mantra on the backs.
    — Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 4 July 2024
  • Tight end Tyler Higbee had heard the wait-until-next-year mantra.
    — Jay Paris, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • And while your mantra should be ‘plan, plan, plan,’ be prepared to pivot.
    — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2022
  • The reports forced a reminder of a longstanding mantra on Wall Street: Don’t fight the Fed.
    — Damian J. Troise, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2022
  • So that’s been the mantra going back to work, do your job and focus on doing your job.
    — Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The crowd repeated his mantra with gusto, again and again.
    — Todd Plummer, Vogue, 24 Nov. 2022
  • And Germany, among the most reluctant to break with Russia, has ditched the mantra.
    — Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Vempati was able to spin that mantra into a book, a TED talk and even a podcast.
    — Carrie Shepherd, Axios, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Throughout the years, survival had been a Crosby mantra.
    — Dallas News, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Peyroux co-wrote all 10 tracks with three words as her mantra: truth, justice, and love.
    — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 20 July 2024
  • In defiance of this mantra, Fox Solomon lets the self-portraits in her book starkly convey the brutality of aging.
    — Christina Cacouris, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2024

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