View example sentences and word forms for Adages.
Adages meaning
plural of adage
Example sentences (5)
History books are filled with famous quotes and even adages that speak to the power of teamwork, partnership, support, and collaboration.
Truly burying the hatchet wasn’t going to be as simple as a couple adages.
Kalaba of all people due to his high aspirations should know the two adages and make good use of them for good measure if he is to stand a chance of attaining that which he aspires for.
His hope is that all that possession and attacking and shooting will produce even more attacking and shooting, and he’s trying to remind his players of one of the oldest of hockey adages: You can’t score if you don’t shoot.
Erasmus probably coined the modern usage of the Latin word in his Adagia ("Adages"), published in the winter of 1517–1518, to designate the coherence of dissenters in spite of their differences in theological opinions.