How to Use discipline in a Sentence

discipline

1 of 2 noun
Definition of disciplinenext
Synonyms for disciplinenext
  • The teacher has a hard time maintaining discipline in the classroom.
  • The troops were praised for their dedication and discipline.
  • Keeping a journal is a good discipline for a writer.
  • Some parents feel that the school's principal has been too harsh in meting out discipline.
  • The era of the celebrity founder is over and discipline is back.
    — Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The post contained a list of musings on the chase and the discipline that followed.
    — Eric Heisig, cleveland.com, 26 Oct. 2017
  • First of all, by having lots of discipline to get the job done.
    — Tere Aguilera, Billboard, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Instead, the two disciplines to medal in will be street and park.
    — Charlotte Carroll, SI.com, 23 July 2019
  • The Suns have displayed a lack of discipline that leads to fouls.
    — Duane Rankin, azcentral, 11 June 2020
  • How will Schwartz change the discipline on the defensive side of the ball?
    — Dan Labbe, cleveland, 19 Jan. 2023
  • That team had discipline, played with heart and a sense of purpose.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 17 May 2020
  • Players and coaches will have to have even more discipline to stay clear of the virus.
    — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 10 Nov. 2020
  • Lee took first in her best discipline: the uneven bars.
    — Mark Osborne, ABC News, 28 Dec. 2021
  • This discipline is a way to resist the monotony and violence of prison life.
    — Janie Paul, The Conversation, 9 June 2020
  • Not to mention the size and speed but also the discipline and how well-coached these two teams are.
    — Adam Jude, The Seattle Times, 14 Sep. 2017
  • If the coach allows his child to get out of control, the team discipline will fall by the wayside.
    — Bird Brown, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 18 Aug. 2019
  • But the lessons learned from the fair – about discipline and hard work – stay with Williams to this day.
    — Sallee Ann Ruibal, Cincinnati.com, 30 Oct. 2019
  • Everyone wants to talk about discipline and hard work and all of these things.
    — Rob Tornoe, Philly.com, 22 Oct. 2017
  • Everyone wants to talk about discipline and heart work and all of these things.
    — Mark Heim, AL.com, 21 Oct. 2017
  • So, discipline was a very big thing for my dad growing up.
    — Savannah Scott, Teen Vogue, 30 Jan. 2018
  • That is bad news not just for the discipline, but for everyone.
    — The Economist, 19 Apr. 2018
  • That structure and discipline now had to come from within.
    — Washington Post, 25 June 2020
  • But once his discipline crept in, there was no turning back.
    — Dalila Thomas, Dallas News, 17 June 2020
  • Two of them remain open, while the third was closed without discipline.
    — Mark Berman, Washington Post, 19 July 2017
  • There is a discipline to her approach and not wearing logos was one of them.
    — Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 6 Nov. 2023
  • If a team were to sign him, Brown likely would face league discipline.
    — Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2020
  • Neither role is meant to be involved in school discipline.
    — Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Plate discipline is a strength; ball-strike discernment is a strength of his.
    — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Bohm is a slugger with great plate discipline and should breeze through the lower levels.
    — Matt Breen, Philly.com, 7 June 2018
  • This kind of deep-field science is a fairly new discipline.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 11 July 2022
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discipline

2 of 2 verb
  • I'm trying to discipline myself to eat less.
  • She was disciplined for misbehaving in class.
  • He seems unwilling or unable to discipline his children.
  • None of the judges involved in the episode was disciplined.
    — Anat Rubin, ProPublica, 4 Nov. 2023
  • The gym kept me off the streets and disciplined me over all as a person.
    — Karina Lloyd, Detroit Free Press, 24 Sep. 2017
  • The Cougars will have to be more disciplined against the Broncos this year.
    — Stefanie Loh, The Seattle Times, 3 Sep. 2017
  • The Rams were not disciplined by the league for their handling of Keenum.
    — Jim Owczarski, Cincinnati.com, 17 Dec. 2017
  • The lieutenant is the second to be disciplined in almost two months.
    — Cristóbal Reyes, orlandosentinel.com, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Plenty of time to rinse the bad taste of the opener from their mouth and work on being more disciplined.
    — cleveland.com, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Borges wouldn't comment on whether the barista would be disciplined.
    — Serena O'Sullivan, azcentral, 6 July 2019
  • Jill has been very disciplined and sacrificed a lot to get to this point.
    — Aurelie Corinthios, PEOPLE.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Your mother didn’t use a leather strap to discipline you.
    — Bernice L. McFadden, Longreads, 5 June 2020
  • The pimps have begun to discipline those deemed lazy by cuffing them around.
    — Gail Sheehy, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Sep. 2017
  • Michigan has to be more disciplined against these looks and has to clean up its tackling.
    — Nick Baumgardner, Detroit Free Press, 29 Oct. 2017
  • There's disciplined use of branching to try to make merges easy and predictable.
    — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 20 Oct. 2018
  • Soldotna is the most well-coached, disciplined team in the state, hands down.
    — Matt Nevala, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Aug. 2019
  • Manino said this takes tons of disciplined work behind the scenes, day in and day out.
    — Kara Martinez Bachman, NOLA.com, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Starbucks would not say whether the barista would be disciplined in connection with the case.
    — Fox News, 6 July 2019
  • This isn't the first time this season Wilson has been disciplined by the league.
    — baltimoresun.com, 3 May 2018
  • But some districts threatened to discipline those who joined the wave of walkouts.
    — Time, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Frankie forced the thin variety of smile someone gives to a naughty child that isn’t theirs to discipline.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2023
  • The employee was also disciplined for lying on a couch at the church.
    — Michael Williams, Dallas News, 16 Mar. 2023
  • What breaks my heart is that she’s always been disciplined.
    — Vulture, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Well, look, firms are disciplined by two forces, right?
    — Gideon Lichfield, WIRED, 13 Sep. 2023
  • She was sometimes disciplined by being locked in a dark closet, her legs tied to the chair.
    — Deborah Martin, ExpressNews.com, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Apple may discipline employees who fail to come to the office at least three days a week.
    — Amber Burton, Fortune, 27 Mar. 2023
  • But Louisville isn't the only school to discipline its students.
    — Cameron Teague Robinson, The Courier-Journal, 6 Aug. 2020
  • Lisicky is disciplined about keeping past and future in their places.
    — Lidija Haas, Harper's magazine, 2 Mar. 2020
  • You would surely be disciplined in some severe way if you didn't get fired.
    — Catherine Herridge, Pamela K. Browne, Fox News, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Make that five starters who are being disciplined for being late for a team meeting.
    — Jeff Metcalfe, azcentral, 16 Nov. 2019

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