Example sentences for: pontius

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

  • demanded Pontius Pilate (John 18:38) during his interrogation of Jesus.

  • Like the Gospel writers, Jesus almost exonerates Pontius Pilate from any guilt in his death.

  • The Independent called the U.N. decision to pull its current mission out of East Timor "a grand Pontius Pilate-style washing of hands" and "a treacherous abandonment for the Timorese people."

  • At 1950s-era "Pontius Pilate High" in Corpus Christi, Texas--the town where McNally grew up--Joshua is bullied into playing football and taunted by his peers as a "faggot."


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