Example sentences for: heretical

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

  • So strongly, moreover, do I cling to this heretical belief, that when one of my colleagues suggested I write a column attacking the district's tax remission on well-accepted economic grounds, I objected (devotion to a free and fair airing of contrary opinions be damned).

  • He believes calcium consumption may be at the root of our bone problems, but his heretical hypothesis is not that we don't get enough calcium but rather that we get too much.

  • The bank takes its devotion to inflation-fighting very seriously, and it does not believe the admittedly heretical view that sometimes a little inflation is not a bad thing.

  • But in 1526, smuggled copies of Tyndale's heretical translation of the New Testament began appearing in England, to the great consternation of the establishment, including Henry VIII, Cardinal Wolsey, and Sir Thomas More, and to the lasting glory of the English language.

  • There's no nudity or sex onstage, and though the Vatican regards the notion of a noncelibate gay Jesus as heretical, the playwright's intention is not sacrilegious.


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