Example sentences for: preach

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

  • The Saudi government, always conscious of its duties as the custodian of Islam's holiest places, joined with wealthy Arabs from the Kingdom and other states bordering the Persian Gulf in donating money to build mosques and religious schools that could preach and teach their interpretation of Islamic doctrine.

  • Still, when he returned to the United States, he continued to preach support for Stalin and denied that he had witnessed any anti-Semitism while in Moscow.

  • Greenspan tried to preach higher principles, but both sides twisted his answers to suit their purposes.

  • dark, ominous and pretentious" (Jeff Giles, Newsweek ) … "an unoriginal warming over of a skimpy Japanese production … an innocuous, if lengthy, commercial" (Michael O'Sullivan, the Washington Post ) … "its efforts to preach nonviolence while exploiting it are both patronizing and hypocritical" (Jack Mathews, the Daily News ) … "idiotic" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Many reviewers admit that they're powerless to influence the target audience and predict (correctly) that the film will be a huge hit no matter what they say.

  • Realists preach humility and prudence, which idealists dismiss as complacency and selfishness.


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