Example sentences for: gentiles

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

  • If I sound sour compared with other critics, it's because I think Levinson missed a chance to get something unique and audacious on screen: the story of a thin-skinned Jewish kid who'd grow up to make autobiographical movies that somehow leave out the Jewishness and then get so enraged by a critic's offhand projection of Jewishness into a big WASPy sci-fi picture that he vows to go back and remake his other films with Jews instead of gentiles.

  • Bringing Harry along means teaching him how to dress and spend money ("Having money and not flashing it is strictly for gentiles," they explain); treating him to a whore (Anna Thompson), whom he reluctantly accepts and then pays not to have sex with ("Do I seem normal with girls?

  • The Korbel family's casualties were especially incongruous because gentiles generally suffered less during Nazi occupation in Czechoslovakia than in other Central and Eastern European countries.

  • He would have a problem, of course, because most North American gentiles of my age bear the visible signs of the Covenant of Abraham.

  • Speaking of Gentiles , there is a story (perhaps apocryphal) that the famous Israeli general and archaeologist, Yigael Yadin, once prefaced a speech at the University of Utah with the observation, You know, this is probably the only place I can come and be a Gentile!


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