Example sentences for: protestant

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

  • Since the Protestant majority in Northern Ireland wants to remain a part of Great Britain, and since Ireland itself has shown little interest in reunification, the IRA's prospects for success through political channels have always been limited.

  • Northern Ireland's troubles increased over Christmas with the murder in the Maze prison of "King Rat," the jailed Protestant terrorist Billy Wright, and the subsequent retaliatory shooting in County Tyrone of a Roman Catholic, Seamus Dillon.

  • They're hardly heroic in their virtues; there's none of the grandeur of, say, the Protestant Ethic here.

  • William Charles Cole Claiborne was a Protestant from Virginia who needed interpreters to communicate in both French and Spanish.

  • The LAT and the NYT state early on that the explosion may jeopardize the peace agreement, but the WP notes in its second paragraph that "local Protestant and Catholic leaders insisted that the tragedy . . . would not block implementation" of the agreement.


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