Example sentences for: superstition

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

  • A generation ago, a Protestant president of the United States who took Communion at a Catholic ceremony would have had to worry about censure not from Catholics but from co-religionists appalled at the spectacle of a Bible-believing Protestant participating in the "popish superstition" of the Mass.

  • Announcing the ban Friday, the official China Daily said the sect had engaged in illegal activities: advocating superstition and spreading fallacies, hoodwinking people, inciting and creating disturbances, and jeopardizing social stability.

  • As another step in its retreat into state-sponsored superstition, the board has also forbidden all references to the Big Bang.

  • Such was the incredible cutting power of the Japanese sword — embellished perhaps a bit by Japanese superstition.

  • The NYT points to a third cause for the dive, superstition: many investors are selling because they know that the market has suffered horrible crashes in Octobers past.


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