Example sentences for: apostasy

How can you use “apostasy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Weld's caustic apostasy handed his enemies a persuasive argument against his fitness for the job--that he's "undiplomatic."

  • Framed this way, Weld's apostasy becomes a virtue instead of a vice, suggesting candor instead of a lack of diplomacy.

  • At their last meeting, as Chambers was preparing to flee the party, he begged Hiss to join him, but the supercool Hiss seemed to admire just what horrified Chambers in Soviet behavior--Stalin "played for keeps," as he put it--and his wife, Priscilla, termed Chambers' agonized apostasy "mental masturbation."

  • The objective fact is that whatever you think of Mahathir, Malaysia has gotten away with its economic apostasy.

  • The Weekly Standard 's John Podhoretz compares Horowitz's conversion to conservatism to Whittaker Chambers' magisterial tale of apostasy, Witness . Leftists dismiss the book as score-settling and name-calling.


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