Example sentences for: joshua

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

  • Over the phone, I got word that Joshua had sailed out from the marina around 5 p.m. the night before, and nobody had seen or heard from him since.

  • Moses died on the journey to the Promised Land, but Joshua took over from him, and between 1400 b.c. and 1000 b.c. the tribes of Israel conquered all the lands north and south of Jerusalem, most famously bringing the walls of Old Jericho tumbling down with the sounds of their horns.

  • But how much more emotional the Carnegie Hall climax would have been if instead of suddenly seeing these East Harlem kids on stage with Perlman, Stern, Joshua Bell, etc., we'd seen them rehearsing first and struggling to keep up.

  • Once I got home, friends told me that the engine on Joshua's boat had died the night before, that he'd been rescued by a branch of the Coast Guard, and that he was sailing his boat in instead of letting the Coast Guard tow him.

  • In the Book of Joshua, soldiers were executed for transgressing certain implicit rules of warfare , like looting conquered cities.


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