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.

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

  • (Stat: More than 50 percent of Jews marry gentiles.)

  • However, one must remember that The New York Times is read in New York, which has a sizable jewish population, and these three examples are probably known and used by most New Yorkers (even gentiles, such as the late authour and raconteur Alexander King, one of my all-time favorites and a regular on the old Jack Paar Show, who used them regularly in speech as well as in writing).

  • I would rather not sound like a member of the PC police, but Jeffrey Goldberg talking about his opposition to Jews marrying gentiles in "My Nanny Problem" strikes me as almost racist, and definitely xenophobic.


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