Example sentences for: missionary

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

  • In 1855, Mormon leader Brigham Young responded to promising reports of Las Vegas by sending 30 missionary settlers to the valley; they eventually built a fort not far from today’s Downtown.

  • But, as one missionary who has been building churches in China for two decades put it to me, "Almost everything that is said about the church in China is true for some part of China.

  • It was constructed on the site of missionary Matteo Ricci’s residence in 1650 and rebuilt for the last time in 1904 after being destroyed during the Boxer Rebellion.

  • Such traditional assumptions, sometimes reinforced by the missionary religions, greatly benefit men while predisposing women to HIV infection.

  • 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!”


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