Example sentences for: heresy

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

  • Since I had been the only high-profile economist to advocate the economic heresy that Malaysia had put into practice, sooner or later I would have to face the music.

  • As the Inquisition established its reign of terror to stamp out heresy, converted Jews, conversos, and Muslims, moriscos, were looked upon with suspicion, and many left the country or were condemned to death.

  • The converted Jews (conversos) and Moors (Moriscos) who remained in Spain were viewed with suspicion by the Inquisition, which had been established by the Catholic Monarchs to stamp out heresy.

  • The Jesuits, founded in 1534, quickly became an army of theologians to combat heresy.

  • Tyndale had finished the Book of Jonah, on his way to completing the Old Testament, when he was betrayed, arrested, and convicted of heresy.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast