Example sentences for: doctrine

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

  • No doctrine binds together their complaints about Clinton's actions.

  • Most of the current textual infidelity, though, occurs because the doctrine of stare decisis --which dictates adherence to precedent--forces today's judges to live with adventurous Supreme Court decisions from earlier in the century.

  • Their reversal of fortune was preordained, because their doctrine could not withstand the responsibility that came with success.

  • For example, you might, after observing the natural behavior of praying mantises, be tempted to conclude that it is morally good for females to eat males after sex--and this, I submit, would be a repugnant and wrongheaded doctrine!

  • The Saudi government, always conscious of its duties as the custodian of Islam's holiest places, joined with wealthy Arabs from the Kingdom and other states bordering the Persian Gulf in donating money to build mosques and religious schools that could preach and teach their interpretation of Islamic doctrine.


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