Example sentences for: orthodox

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

  • Mount Sinai has drawn pilgrims for generations and it was endowed with a Christian place of worship as early as a.d. 527, when Emperor Justinian built a small orthodox monastery in the lea of the mountain surrounded by sheer rock faces.

  • St. Catherine’s has long been a very wealthy and influential monastery, founding schools in Greece and around the Orthodox world.

  • Its anti-hero, Hertz Grein, an erudite European refugee and serial deserter of women, turns his back on a secular life gone hideously awry and migrates to Israel, joining the most extreme sect of ultra-Orthodox he can find.

  • The Orthodox Church — for so long the one thing that united the Hellenic Diaspora — still has a strong influence on the population.

  • Each religion and sect — Jews, Muslims (including Druse), Christians (including Armenian and Eastern Orthodox, Catholics, Protestants, Samaritans, and Copts), Baha’i, and several more — claims some piece of this sacred earth.


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