How do you use Espouse in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like adopt or unify, plus the exact meaning.
Espouse meaning
- To marry.
- To accept, support, or take on as one’s own (an idea or a cause).
Synonyms of Espouse
Using Espouse
- The main meaning on this page is: To marry. | To accept, support, or take on as one’s own (an idea or a cause).
- Useful related words include: adopt, unify, unite, get hitched with.
- In the example corpus, espouse often appears in combinations such as: to espouse, espouse the, who espouse.
Context around Espouse
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 8 middle, 10 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Espouse
- In this selection, "espouse" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 26 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, opportunists, homes, varoquiers, nazi, hatred and armed stand out and add context to how "espouse" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and varoquiers espouse and art to espouse a seemingly. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "espouse" sits close to words such as aau, abandons and affections, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with espouse
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
How did this post-Breen Era film manage to espouse these bygone values? (13 words)
Even folks who make a living beautifying homes espouse the virtues of the laundry chair. (15 words)
It’s not anti-intellectual for a piece of art to espouse a seemingly simple philosophy of living. (18 words)
With that effort comes pushback from certain "fans" who want things to stay the same, and the fear of said pushback makes a lot of the executives responsible for financing the media hedge their bets on truly committing to the values they claim to espouse. (45 words)
Australia's internet safety regulator wrote to X in June demanding an explanation for an explosion in hate speech on the platform, noting it had reinstated some 62,000 high profile accounts of individuals who espouse Nazi rhetoric. (38 words)
Hate speeches can be heard against our people; Jews are being beaten up, blocked from entering their synagogue to pray; universities, the seat of knowledge and intelligence in the community, espouse hatred against our people. (35 words)
How did this post-Breen Era film manage to espouse these bygone values? (13 words)
Example sentences (20)
Australia's internet safety regulator wrote to X in June demanding an explanation for an explosion in hate speech on the platform, noting it had reinstated some 62,000 high profile accounts of individuals who espouse Nazi rhetoric.
It’s not anti-intellectual for a piece of art to espouse a seemingly simple philosophy of living.
One of the most impressive feats of Miyazaki’s films is how organically they espouse the filmmaker’s politics without pandering or proselytizing.
The fortifications of their website, buttressed by a potent encryption system, attest to the ethical business practices they espouse.
These right-wing opportunists espouse the political ideology of the power structure and, in return, they are elevated to positions historically reserved for whites.
With that effort comes pushback from certain "fans" who want things to stay the same, and the fear of said pushback makes a lot of the executives responsible for financing the media hedge their bets on truly committing to the values they claim to espouse.
Adding to the chaos, ’s Andy Cato turns up to espouse the virtues of eco-farming (he runs his own farm, it turns out) and ends up arguing with Cooper about ploughing.
Even folks who make a living beautifying homes espouse the virtues of the laundry chair.
Gevelber started the Grow With Google program in 2017, which shares the foundational approach that Davis and Varoquiers espouse.
Hate speeches can be heard against our people; Jews are being beaten up, blocked from entering their synagogue to pray; universities, the seat of knowledge and intelligence in the community, espouse hatred against our people.
It added, “At the highest, the court could see that there could be a public interest involved which is the cause Swamy wishes to espouse in the present petition.
She gets to espouse the beliefs that he really has down deep and can’t publicly say or enforce,” said Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara.
That is very different from demanding the removal of any and all barriers to trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a mantra our opponents espouse.
The alternative is Iran’s so-called Axis of Resistance, the mostly Shiite Muslim alliance of proxy forces in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria and Yemen that espouse armed conflict with Israel.
The last time I checked, America is still a democracy where people have the right to espouse their ideas, no matter how unpopular they may be.
These violations occur under the watch of religions that espouse values of peace and human dignity in the name of the divine.
As noble as the Widow's intentions might be, it does not portray the picturesque vision of heroism All Might has come to espouse.
How did this post-Breen Era film manage to espouse these bygone values?
I mean, hardly any of them who espouse these philosophies have gone without shame … the forces of nature are against white supremacy,” he says.
That they, as well as their counterparts who espouse an extremely secular agenda, view the courts in such a politicised way is yet another symptom of all that ails American democracy.
Common combinations with espouse
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to espouse 16×
- espouse the 11×
- who espouse 7×
- that espouse 4×
- they espouse 3×
- and espouse 3×
- espouse in 2×
- espouse values 2×
- espouse these 2×
- espouse an 2×