Example sentences for: jesuits

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

  • The handsome 17th-century palace of the Jesuits is now the Pinacoteca di Brera, one of the country’s foremost art museums of medieval and Renaissance art, concentrating on the master artists of northern Italy.

  • Pombal dominated Portugal as an enlightened despot, banishing the Jesuits and executing certain members of the nobility who may have been involved in an assassination attempt on the king.

  • As Washington and the surveyors pass the pipe, intrigues and conspiracies involving all sorts of secret factions--Jesuits, Masons, British trading companies--are hinted at.

  • He preferred Sufi mysticism to orthodox Islam, and held debates with Brahmins, Jain monks, Parsi Zoroastrians, and Jesuits.

  • Perhaps inevitably, the church’s most elaborate ornament is the altar of St. Ignatius Loyola, covering the tomb of the Jesuits’ Spanish founder in the left transept.


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