Example sentences for: teachings

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

  • Denouncing waywardness among the faithful, some clerics have appealed for a return to observance of the literal teachings of the Qur'an and Hadith.

  • Reconstructionists, for instance, follow the teachings of Francis Schaeffer, an obscure theologian in Switzerland, and argue for an Iran-like theocracy.

  • But the Karmapa Lama is said to have fled because of recent Chinese restrictions on his movement and teachings.

  • Building on the ancient cults and Vedic teachings of the Indo-Aryans dating from 1300 b.c. , Hinduism began to take its present form in the fourth century a.d. , under considerable pressure for a more “accessible” religion.

  • Nanak’s teachings were written in the Adi Granth, which acquired for Sikhs the sanctity of the Koran.


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