orthodox - use in sentences

Adjective modifier

  • more: For the more orthodox, Deterministic Chaos Theory seemed a dead letter issue.
  • eastern: Makes me want to be eastern orthodox more than ever!

Modifies a noun

  • christology: Brown seems to portray orthodox christology as somewhat ' docetic ' - Jesus was fully God, but not wholly human.
  • Christianity: She is on the radical wing of orthodox Christianity.
  • Marxism: At the same time he was very embedded in the orthodox Marxism of the time.
  • doctrine: This time he built schools to teach the orthodox doctrine.

Modifying Another Word

  • strictly: In the words of one strictly orthodox headteacher: ' Special needs are a luxury.
  • fairly: The author, Mike Finley, comes from a fairly orthodox angle, but also has a lot of respect for Jenkins ' work.
  • entirely: It represents Sinai on the back, traditional icon scenes, but it is not entirely orthodox in type.
  • very: I had an arranged marriage, my parents were really very orthodox they were very strict we could never go out at all no.
  • not: But even if in the future we were to have a Bishop who was not orthodox, my integrity would not be compromised.
  • so: He told me afterward, he liked firmness in an old man, and was pleased to see Mr M'Lean so orthodox.

Noun used with modifier

  • time: Traditionalists, as their name implies, are trying to stick to dat ol ' time orthodox religion.
  • arm: Holly Colvin a left arm orthodox bowler made her test debut last year in the ashes winning side against Australia.

Used with adjective complement

  • sound: We were always very careful to write music that didn't sound orthodox.
  • remain: We know instances in which men have abandoned belief in full inerrancy but have remained substantially orthodox in the rest of their theology.

Preposition: in

  • doctrine: Note carefully that all the above books are thoroughly orthodox in doctrine.

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