Example sentences for: missionary

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

  • With the exception of Bullmore's ghastly Rezia (her accent is pathetic), the rest of the actors are treasurable: Michael Kitchen as old Peter Walsh, who melds so perfectly with Alan Cox, the young Walsh, that I wondered if Gorris had got hold of a time machine and used the same actor twice; Selina Cadell's rough-hewed missionary Miss Kilman; Sarah Badel's stout and effulgent Lady Rosseter (the aged Sally Seton); Oliver Ford Davies' lockjawed twit Hugh Whitbread; John Standing's anxiously settled older Dalloway; and the lyrically foolish Lady Bruton of Margaret Tyzack, full of liberal schemes for helping the unemployed by shipping them off to Canada.

  • The missionary influence waned, and the royal court asserted its power, as well as its love of luxury.

  • The Camdens aren't raising a family; they're fighting a culture war, no matter how gentle the father's Christianity may seem, and underneath the pop-cultural giddiness there's a missionary zeal that comes off as more High School Confidential than Brady Bunch.

  • One missionary told of the time his family went home to Germany on furlough.

  • This settlement originally served as a hermitage for Father Jerome, an Anglican missionary who had converted to Catholicism and become an influential churchman on the Out Islands, responsible for the erection of a number of Catholic Churches.


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