gentile

Example Sentences

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But this will work only by learning how to protect ourselves and make the case to our gentile neighbors so that we can continue to contribute mightily to the future of our common home.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2025

“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

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

As he crossed the goal line, Singleton slowed to a gentile walk, barely leapt off the ground to chest-bump a teammate and lightly tossed the ball to an official.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 21, 2022

We found Wojek, the kind gentile who had sold my father's suits, and we connected with a former neighbor on Przemyslowa Street.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson