Example sentences for: hasidic

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

  • The book takes place over three summers in the late 1970s in and around a mitnaged (rationalist, anti-mystical, non-Hasidic) ultra-Orthodox sect, the Kirschners, who followed their rabbi from Frankfurt to Washington Heights just before World War II and have taken to summering in a hamlet in the Eastern Catskills.

  • The actor, when he does miraculously turn up to embark on a successful Broadway career, admits he destroyed his first wife's happiness as if it were the most natural thing in the world: "Well, the daughter of a Hasidic family, the child of a wealthy man, came on the scene and I ruined her.

  • Dutch drug dealers enlisted young Hasidic men flying from Europe to New York to smuggle MDMA (Ecstasy), a drug shown to cause brain damage in squirrels.

  • Hasidic Jews wear black hats, often trimmed with fur, and long black or brocaded coats — garb dating from their origins in 18th-century eastern Europe.

  • Best excuse from a Hasidic courier: Drugs?


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