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sect - use in sentences
Preposition: of
- Buddhism: Amida is a central figure in the ' Pure Land ' sects of Buddhism.
- Christianity: Northern Ireland stands as a striking example of the hatred between two sects of Christianity.
- Pharisee: Now it was just to such homes that the sect of the Pharisees owed their origin.
Converse of object
- found: Not fifty years pass before there are twenty sects founded upon the same book.
- join: The man did not want to be named for fear of reprisals on his son, who joined the sect eight years ago.
- know: Fourteen were immediately baptized, including a leading Swiss figure in an internationally known sect.
- become: We must not become a sect ' or club whose " fruit " is of only one tree.
- lead: Jesus led the sect of Essenes, the Nazarenes, who believed the End Time had come.
- call: A few people catching that vision could be called a sect.
Adjective modifier
- Gnostic: It was the Gnostic sects that believed in " secret " revelations.
- apocalyptic: They were both apocalyptic sects, which despised Roman occupation.
- confessional: The left regards Marxism as adequate for a defining credo of some confessional sect.
Modifies a noun
- ion: Sect ion 1: Outline of the rights What are the rights?
Noun used with modifier
- non-conformist: There then followed a mass round-up of all members of non-conformist sects.
- Buddhist: He had also been a leader in a reformed Buddhist sect.
- minority: Christianity is an irrelevant minority sect, they argue.
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