Example sentences for: missionaries

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

  • The simple little Church of St. Joseph contains the tombs of the martyred missionaries.

  • (Call us “missionaries” to make it simple.)

  • Untouchables pressed for better treatment, but their cause was not helped by the activism of American missionaries and the Salvation Army, who gave other castes a good excuse to resist “foreign interference. ”

  • Even after the persecution and banishing of missionaries and the ban on Christianity, Nagasaki’s Catholics still managed — at great risk — to continue clandestine observance throughout the years of the Tokugawa shogunate.

  • They echo the old question, posed regularly by missionaries, anthropologists, and linguists, as to whether women speak (or “chatter,” a word used only for females and nonhumans) a different language, a dialect, a “genderlect” with each other and with men, whether they can, do, or should speak what the title of Dale Spender's book calls Man Made Language . The answers often appear in measured, academic prose.


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