Sentences with 'adage'
Example sentences and phrases with the word adage and other words derived from it.
• « The old adage that "history is written by the victors" is simply not true: history has left behind mountains of evidence about the lives of those who had access to less personal autonomy than the social elites. These elites did much to write some of the most familiar historical narratives, but these traditional narratives have been subject to sustained criticism for several decades. »
• « An old adage says that "generals fight the last war", basing their tactics on what worked in previous conflicts, and in 1914 the "last war" most generals sought was the Franco-Prussian war, which Prussia had won by swift and decisive action and overwhelming force. »