Example sentences for: pagan

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

  • Worship carried on here longer than in other pagan sites in Egypt, with texts stating that pilgrims came as late as the fourth century a.d.

  • Throughout this period, Ireland’s political organization continued much as it had under pagan Celtic rule.

  • In Dancing at Lughnasa (it's pronounced LOO-nassa), the sisters reside in a sterile and repressive Ireland--but one in which the pagan past continues to bubble up, most visibly in the harvest feast of Lughnasa, when peasants take to the hills to build fires, drink to even greater excess than usual, and dance orgiastically.

  • He met with a hostile response from the Pagan population, but did convert Dionysus who later became the patron saint of Athens.

  • Titus had a hard time combating the Cretans’ pagan beliefs, and was martyred for his overzealous efforts.


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