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Example sentences for: vocation

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

The only comprehensible explanation is that the vocation that had burrowed in next to medicine had taken control, had insisted.
Biography is no vocation for old men; it requires physical stamina.
In discussing a time when black men and women with an intellectual vocation were deprived of the chance to make a living through the pen, there is a case for looking in American black life for the places to which those thwarted thinkers diverted their energies.
I am leery of this desire to extend the category of "intellectual" in all sorts of directions away from those with a vocation to scholarship or writing.
In a 1988 apostolic letter on the "dignity and vocation of women," the pope warned that "in the name of liberation from male domination, women must not appropriate to themselves male characteristics contrary to their own feminine 'originality.