Example sentences for: secular

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

  • Grein is the central consciousness of the book, a man who, once a brilliant Talmud scholar in Poland and then a student of secular philosophy, is now a half-hearted mutual-fund manager in America.

  • My son, who had rattled both of his deeply secular parents a few years earlier by requesting a bar mitzvah (for which, to our astonishment, he studied intently for two years, delivering himself of a whomping cantor-led performance and bar mitzvah speech in which he discussed in serious 13-year-old voice his intense feeling about carrying on a tradition his father's family had let lapse), told me kindly one day that he had stopped eating pork so maybe I could cut back on the bacon.

  • He never went to a secular Yiddish school where Yiddish was taught as a basic subject and where other subjects as well were taught in Yiddish.

  • Many of these students are now reformists pressing for open, secular government.

  • In King's letter from the Birmingham jail, where he languished for a week in April 1963, he "pulled up hope in paired phrases of secular and religious faith," repeatedly invoking "constitutional and God-given rights" in a "characteristically American ...


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