MISSIONARY in a Sentence
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26 example sentences for MISSIONARY, such as:
1. She had a kind of missionary zeal about bringing culture to the masses.
2. I once heard a missionary say it was like the beard of an Arabian sheik.
3. We are as safe from interruption as a missionary would be at the beginning of a two hours' discourse.
4. He became involved in missionary work in Africa at a very young age and at times stirred controversy.
5. Try as they would, the missionaries were unable to uproot the ingrained superstitions of the natives.
2. I once heard a missionary say it was like the beard of an Arabian sheik.
3. We are as safe from interruption as a missionary would be at the beginning of a two hours' discourse.
4. He became involved in missionary work in Africa at a very young age and at times stirred controversy.
5. Try as they would, the missionaries were unable to uproot the ingrained superstitions of the natives.
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Meanings and Examples of MISSIONARY
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missionary
n. someone who attempts to convert others to a particular doctrine or program
a. relating to or connected to a religious mission
Classic Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1 Young man, you'd better ship for a missionary, instead of a fore-mast hand; I never heard a better sermon.
2 I once heard a missionary say it was like the beard of an Arabian sheik.
3 He reported that the coroner would reach the Shimerdas' sometime that afternoon, but the missionary priest was at the other end of his parish, a hundred miles away, and the trains were not running.
4 Grandfather was a deacon in the new Baptist Church, grandmother was busy with church suppers and missionary societies, and I was quite another boy, or thought I was.
5 We are as safe from interruption as a missionary would be at the beginning of a two hours' discourse.
6 You would send them to Africa, out of your sight and smell, and then send a missionary or two to do up all the self-denial of elevating them compendiously.
7 "Well, it might be a real missionary work," said she, looking rather more favorably on the child.
8 At Amherstberg they found the missionary with whom George and Eliza had taken shelter, on their first arrival in Canada; and through him were enabled to trace the family to Montreal.
9 The note-book of a missionary, among the Canadian fugitives, contains truth stranger than fiction.
10 Association with the masters, missionary effort and motives of expediency gave these rites an early veneer of Christianity, and after the lapse of many generations the Negro church became Christian.
11 On my way North I stopped in New York to try to get a letter of recommendation from an officer of a missionary organization who had become somewhat acquainted with me a few years previous.
12 Our preaching service, prayer-meetings, Sunday-school, Christian Endeavour Society, Young Men's Christian Association, and various missionary organizations, testify to this.
13 One association even appointed a "missionary" whose duty it was to warn the people against sending their children to Tuskegee.
14 He accounted it a pity that so fine and talented a young man should have formed the design of going out as a missionary; it was quite throwing a valuable life away.
15 With me, then, it seems, you cannot go: but if you are sincere in your offer, I will, while in town, speak to a married missionary, whose wife needs a coadjutor.
Example Sentence:
1 The scene the horror film where the cannibal dismembered the missionary left me with my hair standing on end.
2 And I will give the missionary my energies, but not myself: that would be only adding the husk and shell to the kernel.
3 He became involved in missionary work in Africa at a very young age and at times stirred controversy.
4 She had a kind of missionary zeal about bringing culture to the masses.
5 Try as they would, the missionaries were unable to uproot the ingrained superstitions of the natives.