Sentence examples for gentile from inspiring English sources
The word 'gentile' is correct and usable in written English
It is primarily used to refer to someone who is not Jewish, but it can also have other meanings depending on the context. Example: The congregation at the church was made up of both gentile and Jewish members.
While perhaps not as rigorous as the gentile past of Downton Abbey, this allows us to have some expectation of what's going to happen in social situations.
One of its adult-education courses, designed in part for gentile spouses, is called "The Accidental Jew".
And gentile Poles are typically imagined to have rejoiced, collaborated or simply stood by as their Jewish compatriots were exterminated.
As a doctor's daughter, she had been brought up in a house that was open to anyone in pain or need, Jew or gentile.
Disgusted, the kings threw it down a well, whereupon it burst into flames; they somehow fished it out, took it home and worshipped it.The nature of the gifts, though, was less important than the fact that the kings represented the whole Gentile world coming to pay homage.
So do the Muslim, Jewish and gentile Germans with whom she has formed a friendship group, called Salaam-Shalom.
Of the 1m-plus immigrants from the former Soviet Union who have settled in Israel in the past two decades, some 300,000 are considered gentile by the Orthodox rabbinate, because, under the Orthodox interpretation, Jewishness is transmitted only through mothers.
In this dispensation, gentile spouses and converts are welcomed.
Blue states are Jew states…"Marrying outSociologists link the rise in non-affiliation among Jews to the steep increase in Jewish-Gentile intermarriage in recent decades.
The founder of the dynasty of painters that was most important in Venice during the early Renaissance was Jacopo Bellini (c. 1400 70), a pupil of Gentile da Fabriano.
Yet "The Court", directed by Michele Gentile and Marcus Vetter and released recently in Germany, is no blockbuster, but a fascinating documentary about the pioneering work of the first world court.
