Sentence examples for adage applies from inspiring English sources

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That old adage applies here.

This old adage applies resolutely to Bishop.

The adage applies: when you know, you know.

The old adage applies: "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink".

The same worldly-wise adage applies these days to the entire Arab region, wracked by collapsing states, terrorism, sectarianism, proxy wars and alliances of the strangest bedfellows.

I concede with painful candor and a heavy heart that the adage applies to me and to my generation of American leadership regarding Vietnam.

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Dambisa Moyo's book Dead Aid gives fresh meaning to this old adage, applying the perspective of a top-tier investment banker to the plight of the poorest people in Sub-Saharan Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa

It doesn't take a scholar to figure out how these adages apply to every day life.

This adage also applies in an unexpected place – to broccoli, the luvvie of the high-street "superfood" detox salad.

According to David Cronenberg's epochal Videodrome, there's nothing more dangerous than "a philosophy", an adage that applies to life in general and horror cinema in particular.

If the first debate between Ted Cruz and Beto O'Rourke, in the Texas campaign for the U.S. Senate, can be taken as a representative example, the adage also applies to politics.

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