Sentences with nostrum
nos·trum
N n - ...yesterday's failed socialist nostrums.
- ...pills, tablets, and other nostrums claiming to be magic potions.
- It's a populist nostrum that seeps into my e-mail basket and oozes from blogs and mainstream media websites with some regularity.
- A nostrum we're constantly spoon-fed by pop psychologists advises getting through the bad times by thinking ahead to something better.
- This nostrum, enormously popular during the late 1970s, faded into obscurity.
- Nature has provided us with a superb nostrum in the form of garlic.
- We must not yield to the politically correct nostrum that every incident of teenage malfeasance can be attributed to societal factors.