Example sentences for: missionary

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

  • Almost all fights ended on the ground, one man mounting the other in missionary position, the pair of them wiggling mysteriously along the canvas for five, 10, even 30 minutes.

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

  • Meanwhile, what do you suppose the cook told his family that night when they asked why he was so tattered and scratched: “You'll never guess what that crazy missionary asked me to do today!”

  • There is a classic case (and true, we are told) of a misunderstanding between a missionary and his cook.

  • To wholly relate how that happens--the plot involves a missionary New Jersey cardinal (George Carlin), the devil, and two fallen, somewhat insane angels (Matt Damon and Ben Affleck)--would not only ruin the surprise, it would ruin this review, since there are nearly as many convolutions in the narrative as there are in Scripture.


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