Example sentences for: gentile

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

  • Remember the scene in Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint where the newly teen-aged Alex Portnoy goes to a frozen pond in his hometown of Newark to gaze upon gentile girls ice-skating?

  • As were the modernist playwright Luigi Pirandello, the poet d'Annunzio, and the major Italian philosopher Giovanni Gentile, who influenced Collingwood and was minister of education in Mussolini's government.

  • There are plenty of evangelical thinkers who differ with Falwell, who believe, like LaHaye, that the Antichrist will be a gentile who rises out of Europe.

  • Tucci had been a follower of Gentile, but broke with fascism during the war and became a member of Dwight Macdonald's circle around Politics , where I met him.

  • Ironically, given Oskar Schindler's role in saving the lives of Jews in Poland and Czechoslovakia, the name is not exclusively a gentile German name.


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