Example sentences for: secular

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

  • Finally Victor Hugo’s gigantic funeral in 1885 settled the issue in favor of a secular mausoleum.

  • Although the constitution of today describes India as a secular State, religion still plays a vital part in everyday life — in its streets as well as in the architecture, sculpture, and painting of its great monuments.

  • Published in the current issue of the secular humanist journal Free Inquiry, the declaration asserts that "the moral issues raised by cloning are neither larger nor more profound than the questions human beings have already faced."

  • But in turn the pope had to kneel in allegiance, and this exchange of spiritual blessing for military protection laid the seeds of future conflict between the papacy and secular rulers, compounded in 962 when Otto I was crowned Emperor of the newly formed Holy Roman Empire.

  • House Republicans have also failed to notice that the school shootings have not occurred in hotbeds of secular humanism--say, Berkeley, Calif.; Cambridge, Mass; or New York City--but in towns that Norman Rockwell and James Dobson would be proud to call home.


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