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How to use mutual in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective, noun

Mutual means having the same relationship, each to each other. Example: “They were mutual enemies.”

Examples of mutual by meaning

adjectiveHaving the same relationship, each to each other.

  • They were mutual enemies.

adjectiveReciprocal.

  • They had mutual fear of each other.

adjectivePossessed in common.

  • They had been introduced by a mutual friend.

More sentences with mutual

  • The attraction was mutual and instant; they were sweet on one another from first sight.From the entry sweet
  • The front load on these mutual funds is a steep five percent.From the entry front load
  • The parts are welded together at points of mutual contact to form a handleably integrated structure.From the entry handleably
  • Many retail investors prefer an exchange-traded fund over a mutual fund due to the intraday liquidity.From the entry exchange-traded fund
  • She was in love with me for 10 years, and still hasn't got over the fact that the feeling wasn't mutual.From the entry get over
  • The campaign degenerated into mutual mudslinging, each candidate trying to tarnish the other's reputation and looking bad in the process.From the entry mudslinging
  • We first met through a mutual friend.From the entry mutual friend
  • I met my husband through a mutual friend at a party. It wasn't love at first sight; in fact, we couldn't stand each other at first!From the entry meet
  • It means the end of self-restraint within a framework of mutual restraint.2025 February 4, Bret Stephens, “Is This the End of Pax Americana?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 05 Feb 2025. From the entry self-restraint
  • “I don't know how I would have gotten through this without you.” “Oh, the feeling is mutual.2023 October 12, Edgar Momplaisir, “A Few Badgeys More” (6:23 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 4, episode 7, spoken by…. From the entry connive
  • Try choosing a large cap mutual fund and you will experience a FOBO.2021, Sandeep Sahni, Sanjit Singh Paul, What My MBA Did Not Teach Me About Money, Notion Press, →ISBN. From the entry FOBO
  • Taking in a mutual inhalation of sconey aroma, they burst out laughing.2021, Jenny Kane, Winter Fires at Mill Grange, Aria, →ISBN. From the entry sconey
  • Sharing resources for mutual benefit: crosstalk between disciplines deepns the understanding of mycorrhizal symbioses.2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 239. From the entry crosstalk
  • The boy sits beside him and two of them are locked in a parenthesis of mutual zonkedness.2009 October 4, Geoff Pevere, “The Death of Bunny Munro presents debauched anti-hero”, in Toronto Star. From the entry zonkedness
  • As is logical, the meeting illustrates mutual differences until it becomes an emblem of a misencounter.2006, Julio Ortega, Transatlantic Translations: Dialogues in Latin American Literature. From the entry misencounter
  • We had discovered a mutual appreciation for saganaki, that artery busting, salt laden, fried goat's cheese.2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 1. From the entry saganaki
  • If N is large then there will be many more mutual helicity terms.2001, Mitchell A. Berger, “Measures of Topological Structure in Magnetic Fields”, in Renzo L. Ricca, editor, An Introduction to the…. From the entry helicity
  • The mutual influences (or 'interference') between fans in the curva and political extremism has several dimensions.1996, Vic Duke, Liz Crolley, Football, Nationality and the State, Taylor & Francis. From the entry curva
  • Emphasis falls on the correction of error and participation in mutual psychagogy.1996, John T. Fitzgeraldn, editor, Friendship, Flattery, and Frankness of Speech: Studies on Friendship in the New Testament World. From the entry psychagogy
  • This paper documents the revealed preferences of U.S. open-end mutual funds for various stock characteristics.1996, Eric G. Falkenstein (March 1996), "Preferences for stock characteristics as revealed by mutual fund portfolio holdings", Journal of…. From the entry revealed preference
  • So it is to the mutual advantage of social primates to backscratch for each other.1995, Stephen R. Kellert, The Biophilia Hypothesis, page 397. From the entry backscratch
  • In the end, meeting a mutual impasse, they adopt a policy of "whip the cat.1982, Terence Hanbury White, François Gallix, Letters to a Friend: The Correspondence Between T.H. White and L.J. Potts, page 137. From the entry whip the cat
  • But he does not see mutual tolerance as the temper of the times.1977 December 17, Tom Hurley, “The Evolution of Sporters”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 24, page 12. From the entry temper of the times
  • Erotic love is selfish love, philiac love is a mutual giving that ceases when mutuality ceases.1971, James L. Malfetti, Elizabeth M. Eidlitz, Perspectives on Sexuality: A Literary Collection, →ISBN, page 328. From the entry philiac
  • Ronning to return for a more serious discussion of problems of mutual concern.1971 May 4, “CHOU REMINISCES WITH ‘OLD FRIEND’”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived…. From the entry Fancheng
  • The tramp would make a living stealing but there would be mutual respect between them.1950, James Blish, Cities in Flight. From the entry bindlestiff
  • So far, you've exchanged some flirty banter, discovered some common ground, and it's obvi the interest is mutual.2020 July 21, Rebecca Strong, “18 Non-Awk Ways To Ask A Match What Kind Of Relationship They're Looking For”, in Elite Daily, archived…. From the entry obvi
  • I think it is one built entirely on mutual attraction and want, that develops into a proper romance.2019, "Aslinncosplay", quoted in Olga Svedin, "Fans som bråkar: Fans reaktioner på representationer av queerhet i dataspelet Dragon Age…. From the entry Adoribull
  • If it is voluntary with mutual benefit but not asymmetrical or damaging to either consorte, it is mutualism. 2.2017, V.K. Agarwal, Zoology for Degree Students, →ISBN. From the entry consorte
  • And third, the angular translational-rotational velocity correlations show a preference for a quasiperpendicular mutual orientation (which is called "lifted-tennis-ball" behavior)..2015, Francisco Vega Reyes, Andrés Santos, “Steady state in a gas of inelastic rough spheres heated by a uniform stochastic force”, in arXiv. From the entry quasiperpendicular
  • Syldavia offers the metal to Borduria, but offers it only in exchange for Borduria signing a treaty for mutual defense.2013, Michael Blake, chapter 5, in Justice and Foreign Policy, 1st edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, archived from the original on…. From the entry Borduria
  • Ryan or Eric Cantor; instead, there was a mutual animosity.2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times. From the entry counterpart
  • “You have been tested in mutual combat against our slaughterbots.2008 June 1, Jackson Publick & Doc Hammer, “Shadowman 9: In the Cradle of Destiny” (21:42 from the start), in The Venture Bros., season 3…. From the entry slaughterbot
  • Pugach’s lingering resentment, not her husband’s less-than-evident remorse, and not even their mutual dependence, but the marriage’s frank descent into humdrumness.2007 May 27, Ruth La Ferla, “What’s Love Got to Do With It?”, in New York Times. From the entry humdrumness
  • Intermarried couples appear to find that the very process of negotiating ethnic differences leads to greater mutual understanding and intimacy.2007 June 8, Patrice E. Heller, Beatrice Wood, “THE INFLUENCE OF RELIGIOUS AND ETHNIC DIFFERENCES ON MARITAL INTIMACY: INTERMARRIAGE…. From the entry intramarriage
  • The European demoicracy is predicated on the mutual recognition of the many European identities — not on their merger.2006, Joel Krieger, Globalization and State Power: A Reader, Longman, →ISBN. From the entry demoicracy
  • Yet in addition to being self-defeating, sectarian triumphalism undermines core Jewish values of common peoplehood and mutual bonds between Jews worldwide.2004, Steven Bayme, “Orthodox Triumphalism Revisited”, in The Jewish Week. From the entry triumphalism

Meaning of mutual

  1. adjective Having the same relationship, each to each other.
  2. adjective Collective, done or held in common.
  3. adjective Reciprocal.

Full definition of mutual

Questions about mutual in a sentence

How do you use mutual in a sentence?
Mutual is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “They were mutual enemies.”
What is a short sentence with mutual?
“They were mutual enemies.”
What does mutual mean?
Mutual means having the same relationship, each to each other.

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