Example sentences for: doctrines

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

  • Hoping to encourage what may be a nascent trend toward rationalism, Chatterbox hereby challenges other religions to step forward and discard outdated doctrines, such as, oh, papal infallibility, or Judaism's silly prejudice against crabcakes and Lobster Thermidor.

  • Indeed, it is quite commonplace for influential people to propound economic doctrines that are "not even wrong," that is, that involve a basic conceptual or accounting impossibility.

  • 'Religious doctrines' were also invoked to deny women the right to vote and to defend slavery.

  • It is not because of the doctrines of communism.

  • The doctrines survive in vegetarianism, with Jain monks carrying dusters to sweep insects away from where they tread and wearing a gauze veil over their mouth to avoid breathing in flies.


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