How to Use morale in a Sentence

morale

noun
Definition of moralenext
Synonyms for moralenext
  • The team is playing well and their morale is high.
  • The President's speech boosted the morale of the troops.
  • And there was enough of it to buoy our flagging morale.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023
  • The morale and the feeling of the guys from the very beginning was very, very good.
    — oregonlive, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Ariely’s lab has lost two of its biggest funders, and morale is low.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2023
  • And so just recruitment alone with the morale and the way that the world is right now has been really rough.
    — Luke Barr, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Here Local 11 union for the hotel workers, says that the union hired a band for marches to boost morale.
    — Helen Li, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Why couldn’t the United States do something similar to boost the morale in psych wards?
    — Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Many artist-run galleries of this era have since shuttered, chased out by high rents and the low morale that can come with them.
    — Jennifer Wilson, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Investing in ways to boost morale will be paramount in 2023.
    — Jennifer Reimert, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
  • The team’s coach, a French Moroccan, has said the team flew a group of players’ mothers to the tournament to boost morale.
    — Aida Alami, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The opera was performed dozens of times and boosted everyone’s morale.
    — Douglas Starr, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Doing so will help both Ukraine’s war efforts and morale in Ukraine’s allies.
    — Liana Fix, Foreign Affairs, 28 Nov. 2023
  • But morale, an area in which Ukrainian fighters held an edge for much of the war, is becoming more of a challenge.
    — Andrew E. Kramer Mauricio Lima, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Reports swirled that the reorg was causing big morale problems.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Present these awards in a live or virtual ceremony to add fun and boost morale.
    — Curt Steinhorst, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • For Ukrainians, the arrest warrants are a major morale boost at a difficult juncture in the war.
    — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2023
  • As a result, the country faces a conflict with no immediate end in view, a prospect that for some Ukrainians is a test of morale.
    — Matthew Mpoke Bigg, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Hamlin reportedly will be in attendance on the Bills’ sideline for the first time, and that could give a major morale boost.
    — David Hill, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Russian troop morale is dwindling, and the armed forces continue to perform below par.
    — Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 13 July 2023
  • What has been much more difficult to discern is the squad’s morale, its fellow feeling, its unity.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2023
  • To keep up morale, staff members decorate their meeting room with cotton snowballs in the winter and flowers in the spring.
    — Sharon Otterman, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2023
  • One of her top priorities is to hire enough staff to do the job because having too few officers erodes morale.
    — Diane Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2023
  • To help, the members of Rolling Stone Culture Council offer eight strategies for keeping up team morale at the beginning of the year and beyond.
    — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2023
  • A lot of talk swirls around keeping employee morale high and supporting the mental health for workers.
    — Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Some played their instruments during the demonstrations to boost morale.
    — Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2024
  • These methods can be helpful when team morale is low or performance needs to improve.
    — Tammy Polk, Quartz, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Zelensky has long tried to control public messaging about the state of the war to preserve public morale.
    — Siobhán O'Grady, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Scott, perhaps keen to boost morale after the tragedy, opted for a more upbeat, pleasure-seeking fare to kick off his next chapter.
    — Suzy Exposito, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2023
  • Searchers are taking water breaks as necessary and morale is high, Bivens said Thursday.
    — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2023

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