Example sentences for: cardinal

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

  • The most solemn of the papal documents, the bull creates a prelate a cardinal (although the biglietto announces it).

  • Designed by Louis le Vau in 1668 to harmonize with the Louvre across the river, the Institut began as a school for the sons of provincial gentry, financed by a legacy of Cardinal Mazarin.

  • To wholly relate how that happens--the plot involves a missionary New Jersey cardinal (George Carlin), the devil, and two fallen, somewhat insane angels (Matt Damon and Ben Affleck)--would not only ruin the surprise, it would ruin this review, since there are nearly as many convolutions in the narrative as there are in Scripture.

  • Jaume I died after reigning in Aragón for six decades, but he made the cardinal error of dividing between his sons the lands he had fought for so long to unite.

  • More recently, at a White House prayer breakfast, Clinton said he wanted to foster a "spirit of reconciliation" and quoted the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin to the effect that time is precious and should not be wasted on acrimony and division.


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