Example sentences for: joss

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

  • I first suspected that Contact 's logic circuits might be fried when, early in the movie, Matthew McConaughey, as a roving Christian Zen master named Palmer Joss, strolls through a Costa Rican palapa nibbling from a box of Cracker Jack.

  • Visitors entering the temple are confronted by a dense pall of smoke from all the burning joss sticks and the incense coils hanging from the ceiling (these will burn for as long as a month).

  • The monks — for this is a working monastery — are kept busy supplying joss (incense) sticks to devout or merely fun-loving visitors.

  • Every August young women convene to light joss sticks and some even climb the nine-meter (30-ft) rock to pray for good husbands.

  • Dr. Arroway (Foster) explains herself to Joss (McConaughey).


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