Example sentences for: sklare

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

  • Three out of four lighted the menorah, an increase even over the 68 percent in Sklare's 1950s study.

  • The Hanukkah lesson being taught, Sklare noted, was no longer reverence to God for performing a miracle but rather the triumph over religious intolerance--a perfect message for liberal America in the age of the civil rights movement.

  • Sklare attributed the holiday's popularity to its easy accommodation to Christmas rituals as well as to its ability to be redefined for modern times.

  • In the early '50s, in a famous Middletown -style study of a Chicago suburb referred to as "Lakeville," sociologist Marshall Sklare found that lighting the Hanukkah candles ranked as the most popular "mitzvah," above hosting a Passover Seder and observing the Sabbath.


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