Example sentences for: gentiles

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

  • What Gentiles would call liberals and called liahonas by Mormons, and conservatives are called iron-rodders , both terms coming from Book of Mormon images.

  • 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?

  • 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.

  • Having more than one wife was all right: Gentiles (nonMormons) just disapproved of having them all at the same time!

  • Oddly, two of the most satisfying experiences of my life as a Jew came about on the initiative of gentiles.


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