Example sentences for: protestants

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

  • Two thousand Protestants, in Paris for Henri’s wedding to Catherine’s daughter Marguerite de Valois, were killed.

  • Writing on the editorial page of the Irish Independent of Dublin, Ruth Dudley Edwards, a noted Catholic historian of the Ulster Protestants, was strong in her condemnation of Hume.

  • WASP started off with a pejorative nuance, it seems to me, but has been accepted so smugly by white Anglo-Saxon Protestants that the term has been appropriated by some people it doesn't fit, for instance Americans of German or Irish descent who may be agnostics of Catholic background.

  • An article says that Northern Ireland's Protestants are leery of the peace accord, because its amnesty provision will free many jailed Irish Republican Army bombers and assassins.

  • Voters in Northern Ireland approved a peace plan . Among other things, the plan appeases Catholics by including Northern Ireland in an all-Ireland council, and it appeases Protestants by abolishing the Irish Republic's constitutional claim to the majority Protestant North.


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