Example sentences for: ultra-

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

  • In an editorial titled "No Choice But New Elections," the respected daily Ha'aretz said Levy was right to have resigned over the budget's stinginess on welfare, because "much funding has been diverted to settlements in the territories, to the ultra-Orthodox sector and to various political pressure groups."

  • Shulman aside, you could find one-line descriptions of Goodman's main characters in any half-dozen American-Jewish novels: the rabbi with two sons, one brilliant and prodigal, one duller but more loyal; the Holocaust survivor numbed by his past; the daughters tempted by the twin heresies of feminism and Zionism (Israel is viewed as a nation of faithless sinners by these ultra-Orthodox Jews); the assimilationist Jew who comes to a bad end.

  • He negotiated a budget deal with Shas, an ultra-Orthodox party that controls a quarter of the coalition's parliamentary seats, thereby averting Shas' threatened withdrawal from the government.

  • Its anti-hero, Hertz Grein, an erudite European refugee and serial deserter of women, turns his back on a secular life gone hideously awry and migrates to Israel, joining the most extreme sect of ultra-Orthodox he can find.

  • Yesterday I happened to meet a top executive of a huge, ultra-Establishment corporation, a conservative-looking middle-aged man in a suit and tie, who described certain Web sites as "sucky."


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