gentile

Example Sentences

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A rabbi and a gentile who fall in love?

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2024

“We reaffirm that Jew and gentile, we are one nation under God; that black and white, we are one nation indivisible; that Republican and Democrat, we are all Americans,” he said.

From Washington Times • Jul. 3, 2023

Already aware that, being the daughter of a Jewish father and gentile mother, I was myself a demi-semite, I was worried.

From Salon • Jun. 27, 2023

Alexander, or Sandy, a lawyer and Midwesterner who shed his gentile background, is despondent, near-suicidal over his failing marriage and “the full catastrophe” of recent history.

From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2023

But it was hard for me to see Charles as a gentile.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover