Example sentences for: observance

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

  • For a large part of the world--and not only the English-speaking world--Shakespeare remains the inexhaustible source of inspiration for writers, actors, directors, composers, historians, learned societies, linguists, drama schools (where, in America, he is honored more in the breach than the observance), films, academia, literary criticism, bibliographers, translators, painters, pilgrims, philosophers, and psychologists.

  • He urged Muslims to read the Qur'an and the Hadith for themselves, not to depend solely on learned interpreters like himself but to hold one another to account for the quality of their observance.

  • Denouncing waywardness among the faithful, some clerics have appealed for a return to observance of the literal teachings of the Qur'an and Hadith.

  • Eating in the sukkah in Manhattan is quite a feat of religious observance.

  • 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.


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