vocation

Example Sentences

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War, however, is their single-minded vocation, even if it leads to a nuclear holocaust with Russia or China.

From Salon

She chose medicine as her vocation as a high school student in Mexico City, where her family had moved for her father’s work.

From Los Angeles Times

"It intertwines varying vocations: to serve the church, to be a parent and to be a trusting child of God."

From BBC

“My real vocation for several decades has been trying to find out who I am, and learn something about reality and consciousness,” he added.

From Los Angeles Times

Instead, Williams said, Lange’s multiethnic and multilingual order preserved the vocations of hundreds of Black Catholic women and girls denied admission into white congregations in the United States, Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean.

From Seattle Times