Example sentences for: cardinal

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

  • It shouldn't have been a complete surprise when I walked into the elevator in my Washington office building and came upon Dick Morris clutching a book by the late Cardinal Bernardin.

  • 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.

  • Richelieu’s protégé Mazarin, another cardinal, took over the job of prime minister during the minority of Louis XIV.

  • Southern Baptists explain how marriage ought to work and Cardinal O'Connor of New York, never shy about his inside line on which political candidates will be going to hell, wants no Major League Baseball games on Good Friday (or at least not between noon and 3 p.m.) and no Little Leaguers missing church for ball.

  • Named after the 13th-century college established by Robert de Sorbon for poor theological students, the university was later taken in hand by Cardinal Richelieu, who financed its reconstruction (1624–1642).


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