How to Use saying in a Sentence

saying

noun

• But strength, as the saying goes, comes from the mouth of babes.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 10 Mar. 2024
• As the old saying goes: The War on Drugs is over — drugs won.
  — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 19 Sep. 2022
• As the saying goes, the dogs barked and the caravan moved on.
  — John R. Bolton, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
• As the saying goes, the time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
  — Brice Englert, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
• It’s not the fall that kills you, as the saying goes — it’s the sudden stop at the bottom.
  — Martha White, CNN, 7 Oct. 2022
• As the old saying goes, many hands can make light work.
  — Sumeet Kulkarni, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2022
• As the saying goes, the kitchen is the stomach of every home—and this one is *chef's kiss*.
  — Kelsey Mulvey, House Beautiful, 19 July 2023
• As the old saying goes: A way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
  — Marco Torres, Chron, 7 July 2022
• Well, as the saying goes: fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 6 Oct. 2022
• This is the chickens coming home to roost, as the saying goes.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2023
• There’s a famous saying: The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago.
  — Brady Slack, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• There is a Christian saying: There but for the grace of God go I.
  — Han Ong, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
• Well, maybe the saying doesn't go exactly like that, but the idea is the same.
  — Alex Ross, Peoplemag, 25 Jan. 2023
• Trends come and go, but style is eternal—so the saying goes.
  — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 14 Dec. 2022
• But what’s the old saying about the cobbler’s children?
  — Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023
• As for the question of Brooks vs. Henson: Like the saying goes, why not both?
  — Vulture, 24 Nov. 2023
• There's a saying that a messy kitchen is a happy kitchen.
  — Jiang Li, Forbes, 15 July 2022
• But that happens, since, as the old saying goes, space is hard.
  — Matt Novak, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
• The saying goes that when America sneezes, Britain gets the cold.
  — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 9 July 2022
• Sometimes, the old saying goes, the best hiding place is in plain sight.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 7 July 2023
• As the saying goes, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
  — Richard Kestenbaum, Forbes, 2 Apr. 2023
• And close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades, as the saying goes.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 15 Aug. 2022
• There's a saying in baseball where a walk is just as good as a hit.
  — USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2024
• There’s the saying around here that the people who are closest to the pain have the best solutions.
  — Robert Jimison, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2023
• As the saying goes, Sarah Palin walked so Donald Trump could run.
  — Keli Goff, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Oct. 2022
• There’s an old saying that bad men do what good men dream.
  — Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Mar. 2023
• But as the old saying goes, when white people get a cold, Black people get the flu.
  — Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
• Truth, as the saying goes, is the first casualty of war.
  — Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2023
• But as the saying goes, the sweetest form of revenge is success.
  — Essence, 29 Aug. 2022
• As the saying goes, 50 percent of life is just showing up.
  — Natalie Alcala, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024