Example sentences for: orthodoxy

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

  • He also found powerful pressures--"loyalty tests"--operating against any black intellectual who tried to challenge the orthodoxy.

  • But orthodoxy continues to prevail against the logic of economic analysis.

  • Their hesitantly pro-life platforms are useful token gestures "of occasional conformity with the governing [pro-choice] orthodoxy."

  • Bu ddhism was founded over 2,500 years ago in reaction to Brahmanic orthodoxy, but it practically vanished as an organized religion from the Indian scene by persecution and absorption into the Hindu mainstream.

  • In "The Conintern," Jacob Weisberg implies there is a rigid conservative orthodoxy that squelches dissent in "movement" publications under punishment of expulsion.


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