Sentence examples for vocation comes from inspiring English sources

The word "vocation" comes from the Latin meaning to call or to be called.

Where I wonder, does he think his restless sense of vocation came from?

Mr. Arons, who spends the early part of the evening tripping over dogs to refill Champagne flutes, is the chief executive of Gourmet Garage in Chelsea, a vocation that comes in handy when planning the menu.

He has never considered his lack of either height or hair to be a deterrent to his vocation, which came to him accidentally sometime in the late 1970s.

This does not mean simply letting professionals (or professions) 'off the hook' but explicitly revisiting the notion of the profession as vocation, with which comes a set of rights, privileges, duties and obligations.

He comes to his vocation a bit oddly.

Trevor is, by every account, a charming, effortlessly polite man, but entirely driven when it comes to his vocation; if he doesn't sit at his desk each morning for four hours from a quarter to seven, the day has no purpose.

The terms "vocation" and "discernment" may come in handy: A "vocation," according to the Church, is a calling.

The growth predictions for the vocations mirror the coming sharp increase in the population of older Americans as the post-World War II baby-boom generation ages.

The epitome of his tainted inheritance, as he himself comes to realize, is his vocation.

2. I'm convinced that the vocation of my faith and my vocation as a theologian come together as a practice of serious imagination.