Example sentences for: missionary

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

  • The most famous Prime Minister under Hawaii’s new political system was an American missionary and physician, Gerrit P. Judd, who served in the post from 1842 to 1854.

  • Sanford Dole, head of a missionary family, and others led a successful movement to curb Kalakaua’s powers.

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

  • It was the height of the African rainy season and I had hitched a ride with an old Dutch missionary to a ceremony several hundred miles away to which we had both been invited.

  • A missionary in Africa and a fraygrant from India argued about the effects of missionary activity.


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