Example sentences for: crusade

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

  • In yesterday's dispatch, gambling's foes learn the folly of having brought their anti-sin crusade to an adult Disneyland.

  • Critics call this courtroom thriller about a lawyer (John Travolta) on a crusade against a polluting company "perversely undramatic" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). Some say a miscast Travolta fails to convey the finer points of his character's internal struggles.

  • A few years ago they went after Barney because he could fly, and because he taught kids about the powers of the imagination (in their crusade they had the tacit support of parents across America, who are fully prepared to believe that the purple dinosaur is the instrument of Satan).

  • The Fourth Crusade, launched in 1202 and partly inspired by Venetian jealousy of Byzantium’s trading power, became an excuse to plunder Constantinople itself.

  • Peter Scott's recent Lost Crusade , the memoir of a U.S. soldier who trained Cambodian mercenaries, is the most affecting book of any sort I've read in a long time.


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