Example sentences for: pagan

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

  • The name of the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva recalls that it was built over a temple of the pagan goddess Minerva.

  • But decadence set in and Dominican monk and rabble-rousing preacher Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498) denounced the corruption of a Church and society more devoted to pagan classics than to the Christian gospel.

  • But there’s all the difference in the world between the prudent, close-mouthed Norman and the vociferous, easy-going Provençal, between the pious Breton and the pagan sophisticate of Paris.

  • (Dumbledore's benevolent but strict theology, involving the operations of free will in a supernaturally determined world, is classically Miltonian--an odd note of Protestantism in this decidedly pagan cosmos.)

  • My wife and I are devout Catholics, and it seems that going to a pagan ceremony goes against all our religious beliefs.


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