Example sentences for: ignatius

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

  • -- Ignatius Byamugyisha refers either to Cher's breasts, which could attract hundreds of people to the Universal Studios Tour, or to endangered Ugandan gorillas whose habitat is coveted by local farmers

  • On the Post opinion page, David Ignatius drives this point home by quoting Nicholas Lemann's new book on meritocracy (buy it here): "Here is what America looks like today," writes Lemann.

  • Inside, Andrea Pozzo (himself a Jesuit priest and designer of the saint’s tomb at the Gesù) has painted a superb trompe l’oeil ceiling fresco (1685) depicting St. Ignatius’ entry into paradise.

  • "Jesuitical" originally signified "of or pertaining to the Jesuits; belonging to the Society of Jesus; Jesuit" ( OED , again), the Jesuits being the Roman Catholic clerical order founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1534 as an intellectual bulwark against the Reformation.

  • A good point, but marred when Ignatius, trying to tie up his column too neatly with a bow made from the day's news, adds Hurricane Floyd to his list.


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