Example sentences for: cardinal

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

  • Anglicans were also dismayed when Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the pope's doctrinal watchdog, signed a document that seemed to rehabilitate a much-criticized 1896 papal bull declaring the holy orders of Anglican clergy "absolutely null and utterly void."

  • Cardinal John O'Connor of New York used his Palm Sunday sermon to declare the episode "legally and doctrinally wrong" and added this grace note: "Some undoubtedly believe that if one has enough prestige or money, anything goes."

  • He is committing the cardinal sin of Vegas.

  • In the former residence of an 18th-century cardinal, this charming small hotel occupies part of the city’s medieval fortifications.

  • They think Weld overlooked the game's cardinal rule: that Congress has its own rules, including the absolute power of committee chairmen over supplicants such as Weld.


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