Example sentences for: missionaries

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

  • Portuguese merchants arrived in Kagoshima in 1543, with the missionaries of St. Francis Xavier following close behind.

  • It was the year the first missionaries arrived from America.

  • Literal translations have been troublesome to missionaries for years.

  • Under the influence of western missionaries, many African Christian organizations still promote evangelical formulae in which, it is taught, creation was originally good, but then the “fall” of humankind occurred, which is bad, and finally, redemption is available only for the chosen.

  • Modern Indian Christians, some descended from the Syrians, others from those converted by British and Portuguese missionaries, number about 19 million.


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