How to Use mantra in a Sentence

mantra

noun
Definition of mantranext
Synonyms for mantranext
  • 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
  • Their mantra is simple: Don’t tell me what to do, hence the name.
    — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 8 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Tight end Tyler Higbee had heard the wait-until-next-year mantra.
    — Jay Paris, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • Throughout the years, survival had been a Crosby mantra.
    — Dallas News, 19 Jan. 2023
  • The mantra is essentially if all of the humans are killed, there will be no one left to cast them aside.
    — Amanda Luberto, The Arizona Republic, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Just like running through a shot process, a mantra gives control to your conscious mind.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 12 Oct. 2023
  • At that time, Watkins’ mantra was straightforward: Don’t drink, don’t die.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 6 Dec. 2022
  • So there’s value in watching Fox News retreat again and again to its fruity mantra.
    — Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Something for everyone That’s one of the mantras of the Byron Nelson.
    — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 12 May 2023
  • The team does not have a special mantra, no secret ingredient in the recipe.
    — Stephanie Kuzydym, The Courier-Journal, 3 Feb. 2023
  • In any case, the phrase quickly became a mantra in our house—the answer to every ailment, the punch line to every joke.
    — Gillian Silverman, The New Yorker, 15 July 2023
  • Bergeron is sticking with the Bruins’ mantra of focusing on the present.
    — Frank Dell'apa, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2023
  • This variation of the control-what-you-can-control mantra is what the other Clippers have to hear.
    — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2023
  • By that point in school, as the education mantra goes, third graders should be reading to learn, not learning to read.
    — Jackie Valley, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Our mantra as artists is this: If there is too much darkness, add comedy.
    — Ilaria Ravarino, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Oct. 2023
  • On the way home, Johnson utters his pre-driving mantra again before inching through the streets of LA at about 16 m.p.h.
    — Time, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Ozempic encourages us to focus on a mantra of eat, but for God’s sake, don’t grow.
    — Raven Smith, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2023
  • But a mantra readily comes to mind that always pushes me to do the right thing—the hard thing—sooner rather than later.
    — G.t. "toby" Stansell, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
  • This insight has become a sort of mantra for me in all the uncertainty that comes with making a movie.
    — Ruben Östlund, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2023

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