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• “Still, live and let live, that's my motto.” Dylan very much doubted that.2016 April 11, Shirley Wells, Shirley Wells The Dylan Scott Mystery Series Collection 1: Presumed Dead\Dead Silent\Silent Witness\Dead…. From the entry jiffy tummy
• Springfield's esquivalience in formulating a motto for his town via a well-known speech was disappointing.2014, Dan Lewis, Now I Know More: The Revealing Stories Behind Even More of the World's Most Interesting Facts, "F+W Media, Inc.", →ISBN…. From the entry esquivalience
• That's not a bad motto for police work overall, he thought.2012, Håkan Nesser, Münster's Case, An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery. From the entry police work
• Clearly, the relationship between pictura and motto became more literal in this emblem.2010, Simon McKeown, The International Emblem: From Incunabula to the Internet, →ISBN, page 183. From the entry pictura
• That is my personal motto, and it has made me what I am today.2010, Hunter S Thompson, Hey Rube, →ISBN. From the entry when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
• “Anything goes!” was their motto and they lived up to it.2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “The murky world from whence it all came” (chapter 2), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex Toys, Ellora's Cave…. From the entry randy
• The motto of the Chinese national government "Become wealthy together!" has created a hectic atmosphere in Shanghai.1999, “Shanghai”, in The Book of the World, 2nd United States edition (Atlas), Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 411, column 1. From the entry capitalism
• Their motto would probably be "The family that sleeps together keeps together."1984, Amnon Carmi, Hanita Zimrin, Child abuse, page 135. From the entry the family that sleeps together keeps together
• In the city, the old drum-tower now has the mottoes over each gate restored.1979 October, Rewi Alley, “Gansu”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVIII, number 10, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 30…. From the entry Yiwu
• The motto for the likes of me is, What's unchanced risks no failure.1975, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 235, page 150. From the entry unchanced
• Find 'em, feel 'em' fugg 'em, and forget 'm is my motto.1967, Hal Travers, Voyage Sixty-nine, page 122. From the entry fugg
• The motto of these defoliation teams: "Only you can prevent forests."1966, The Conservationist - Volumes 21-22, page 34. From the entry smokey bear
• The motto of the Fletcherites was “Nature will castigate those who don't masticate.”1957, Martin Gardner, Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, Dover, page 221. From the entry fletcherite
• Motto - "Sine labe nota." Residence - Henley House, Avenue Road, Regent's Park, N.W.1910, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour, page 1282. From the entry bourdonnée
• Motto, on an escroll above the mitre : PRO REGE ET GREGE.1904, William Rae Macdonald, Scottish Armorial Seals, page 276. From the entry in piety
• Being Googley had a motto: “Don't politick.2022, Mark Bergen, Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube’s Chaotic Rise to World Domination, Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry politick
• She adds: "We have two mottos at Kingston which we've stuck to the window in the ticket office.2019 December 18, Paul Stephen, “This is the best job I've ever had”, in Rail, page 52. From the entry smile
• The Hufu motto: It's the healthy human-flesh alternative.2010 March 1, Bart King, chapter XXI, in The Big Book of Gross Stuff, Gibbs Smith, →ISBN, page 258. From the entry hufu
• Their Sauronesque motto—Join us, and we can rule the Middle East together—doesn't have quite the catchy ring it once did.2008, Chronicles, volume 32, page 36. From the entry Sauronesque
• I just have a motto that I won't break.2008, Stuart Smith, The Mad Ramblings of a Monkey: The Nefarious Project, page 17. From the entry break one's back
• Sierra uses a medieval Spanish cantiga as the work’s motto, but leaps quickly into modern rhythmic and harmonic complexities.2007 October 1, Allan Kozinn, “Juilliard’s New Semester Starts With New Music”, in New York Times. From the entry cantiga
• Sounds like the motto of a knocking shop in Marrakesh.1990, House of Cards, season 1, episode 1. From the entry knocking shop
• The cyberprep movement (such as it is, ha ha) takes as its motto: "Whatever you do, remember, be polite".1987 September 27, Laurence R. Brothers, “Early Cyberpunk?”, in alt.cyberpunk (Usenet). From the entry cyberprep
• Playboy's motto is: the girl next door.1983, Teresa Carpenter, Bob Fosse, Star 80, spoken by Dorothy Stratten. From the entry girl next door
• Sober or blotto, this is your motto.1959, “Stiff Upper Lip”, in Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook, performed by Ella Fitzgerald. From the entry stiff upper lip
• Ghana's motto, writ large on the gleaming white Independence Arch that overlooks the Atlantic in Accra, is "Freedom and Justice."1957 September 30, “Ghana: White Eminence”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Oct 2011. From the entry write
• “Often wrong, never in doubt” was long the motto of editorial writers, but it can be applied to the journalism racket generally.2018 June 8, Andrew Ferguson, “A Freelancer in Rome”, in The Weekly Standard. From the entry often wrong, never in doubt
• Air Force's motto "Aim High" Dr.2015 May 6, R.L. Nave, “Fly, Fight, Win: The JFP Interview with Dr. Valerie Short”, in Jackson Free Press. From the entry adream
• The company motto, as appearing on all letters and fliers during most of their existence, is 'We make mincemeat of flimsy reality'.2001, John Rudlin, Olly Crick, Commedia Dell'arte: A Handbook for Troupes, →ISBN, page 117. From the entry make mincemeat of
• There we have the man: Ex pede Herculem, as the motto has it—only in this case of course the hat and gloves are more useful.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries. From the entry ex pede Herculem
• Motto : "Niemand Zondes." Siegneurial Coronet.1907, Richard Henry Greene, Henry Reed Stiles, Melatiah Everett Dwight, George Austin Morrison, Hopper Striker Mott, John Reynolds Totten…. From the entry ancré
• The company has built its business on the motto “everything is a recommendation”—the company likes to brag that it tailors every aspect of its interface for each individual user.2017 March 21, Ed Finn, “The Corrupt Personalization of Netflix”, in Slate. From the entry playbook
• In a country whose motto not long ago was “Better dead than Red”, it is ironic that today Time Magazine awarded Vladimir Putin the “Man of the Year Award”.2007 December 20, Karen Fish, “Watch Hillary Clinton Vehemently Vow to Raise Taxes and Vote for War”, in San Francisco Bay Area…. From the entry better dead than red
• The Systems Analysis department featured a clock with only one hand and the motto Klaatu barada nikto, which, roughly translated, means: "IF IT AIN'T BROKE, JUST GIVE ME TIME."2004, James Hold, Out of Texas, iUniverse, page 56. From the entry Klaatu barada nikto
• In this context, isn't it obvious that Chicken Little represents the sane vision, and that Homo sapiens' motto, "Let's go shopping," is the cry of the true lunatic?1995, David Peoples, Janet Peoples, 12 Monkeys. From the entry Chicken Little
• With all due respect to the guy who came up with our current city motto, The “Crossroads of America,” it's time for something a little catchier.[1995 December, “What's My Line?”, in Indianapolis Monthly, volume 19, number 5, Emmis Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 106. From the entry Crossroads of America
• Even an expensive cracker can go off with a phut, not a bang, and burst to reveal one paper hat, one tired motto and a piece of plastic jewellery.1980, Gillian Cooke, A Celebration of Christmas. From the entry phut

Meaning of motto

1. noun A personal slogan.
2. noun A sentence, phrase, or word, forming part of an heraldic achievement.
3. noun A sentence, phrase, or word, prefixed to an essay, discourse, chapter, canto, or the like, suggestive of its subject matter; a short, suggestive expression of a guiding principle; a maxim.

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Questions about motto in a sentence

How do you use motto in a sentence?

Motto is used as a noun and verb. For example: “You have to be in it to win it — that's my motto.”

What is a short sentence with motto?

“Air Force's motto "Aim High" Dr.”

What does motto mean?

Motto means a personal slogan.