Example sentences for: catholics

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

  • Even after the persecution and banishing of missionaries and the ban on Christianity, Nagasaki’s Catholics still managed — at great risk — to continue clandestine observance throughout the years of the Tokugawa shogunate.

  • It's even closer to a Jacobean drama of our own age: The Godfather (1972), which it emulates by cutting back-and-forth between queen and courtiers in prayer and the roundup and slaughter of Catholics on their privies, in bed with their mistresses, and so on.

  • English-imposed legal disabilities also hobbled the efforts of poor Irish Catholics to redress ill-treatment by Anglo-Irish landowners and merchants.

  • Against Catholics there's less direct evidence of 'informal quotas,' but Oren got some former Yale admissions officers to admit that their colleagues discriminated against Catholics during this period.

  • The bishops called their position old news, but gay Catholics found the shift in emphasis significant.


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