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How to use agnostic in a sentence

27 example sentences · adjective, noun

Agnostic means doubtful or uncertain about the existence or demonstrability of God or other deity. Example: “She left the church when she had become agnostic.”

Examples of agnostic by meaning

adjectiveDoubtful or uncertain about the existence or demonstrability of God or other deity.

  • She left the church when she had become agnostic.

adjectiveHaving no firmly held opinions on something.

  • I'm agnostic on whether ethanol is a green fuel.
  • He says he's agnostic concerning the Secretary's claims.

adjectiveOf or relating to agnosticism or its adherents.

  • His agnostic viewpoint is summarized in his book.

adjectiveUnaware or noncommittal regarding the specific nature of the components or input with which it interacts.

  • The socket communications layer is agnostic with regard to its underlying transport mechanism—it is “transport-agnostic”.
  • The software's registration key is platform agnostic and will work on both x86 and ARM processors.

nounA person who holds to a form of agnosticism, especially uncertainty of the existence of a deity.

  • An agnostic thinks it impossible to know the truth in matters such as God and the future life with which Christianity and other religions are concerned.1953 November 3, Bertrand Russell, “What is an Agnostic?”, in Look
  • When I say I'm an agnostic, I only mean that the evidence isn't in.1985, Carl Sagan, Contact: a novel, New York: Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 175

More sentences with agnostic

  • Did you hear the one about the agnostic dyslexic insomniac?From the entry one
  • The agnostic is open towards atheism and metaphysics. The anti-agnostic selects only one option: either atheism or metaphysics, and is not agnostic about that!From the entry anti-agnostic
  • The agnostic is open towards atheism and metaphysics. The antiagnostic selects only one option: either atheism or metaphysics, and is not agnostic about that!From the entry antiagnostic
  • So the “nones” are those three groups together: atheist, agnostic, nothing in particular.2026 January 22, Ross Douthat, quoting Ryan Burge, “America’s Very Weird Religious Future”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New…. From the entry none
  • Regarding the relationship with the EU after the Grexit he remains agnostic.2015, Stavros Mavroudeas, Greek Capitalism in Crisis: Marxist analyses, page 91. From the entry Grexit
  • When it comes to God's existence, I'm not an atheist and I'm not an agnostic.2004, George Carlin, “Bits and Pieces”, in When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York, N.Y.: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, page 261. From the entry puzzle
  • The unstylized facts will hardly justify anything more than an agnostic conclusion.1970, Robert M. Solow, Growth Theory: An Exposition, Oxford University Press, page 6. From the entry unstylized fact
  • The so-called Red Ukrainians, who ideologically support the Soviet Union, are mostly agnostics and atheists.1950, Seymour Martin Lipset, Agrarian Socialism: The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation in Saskatchewan, page 170. From the entry Red Ukrainian
  • If Spencer and his followers are correctly called agnostics, then we should call Dietzgen a pangnostic.1908, Marcus Hitch, “Dietzgenism”, in International Socialist Review, volume 8. From the entry pangnosis
  • Yet strictly we should all be teapot agnostics: we cannot prove, for sure, that there is no celestial teapot.2006 September 18, Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, page 52. From the entry for sure
  • Of course, a small minority has always declaimed any religious affiliation, and some agnostics have been prominent figures in American public life.2009, Christopher McKnight Nichols, “The "New" No-Religionists”, in Culture. From the entry declaim
  • At the petabyte scale, information is not a matter of simple three- and four-dimensional taxonomy and order but of dimensionally agnostic statistics.2008 June 23, Chris Anderson, “The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete”, in WIRED, →ISSN, archived from…. From the entry taxonomy
  • Beyond that, Neopaganism may be most helpfully identified by what it is not, neither Christian nor Judaic, neither monotheistic nor agnostic, neither Oriental nor humanist.2003, Edwin Scott Gaustad, Mark A. Noll, A Documentary History of Religion in America: Since 1877, →ISBN, page 603. From the entry neopaganism
  • We materialists, after Engels, term the Kantians and Humeans, agnostics, because they deny the objective reality of the source of our sensations.1927, Collected Works of V. I. Lenin (International Publishers), volume XIII: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin [aut.] and David Kvitko [tr.]…. From the entry Humean
  • Identarian antiracists can afford to look past the problems and remain agnostic on the metaphysical questions because they are most concerned with the problematic political questions.2021, Jonathan Tran, Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism, page 3. From the entry identarian
  • I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place, since any God worth believing in would prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating hypocrite.2001 October 17, Alan Dershowitz, Letters to a Young Lawyer, New York: Basic Books, →ISBN, →OL, page 194. From the entry Pascal's wager
  • Even if the mediologic reputation he deserves is not something widely recognized, we owe as much if not more to this agnostic as to the famed Catholic of Toronto.1996, Régis Debray, Media manifestos: on the technological transmission of cultural forms. From the entry mediologic
  • As to the physical nature and organization of progenotes, Woese was carefully and purposely agnostic, but he entertained the possibility that progenotes were precellular entities lacking even a bounding membrane.2014, Franklin M. Harold, In Search of Cell History: The Evolution of Life's Building Blocks, →ISBN. From the entry progenote
  • I felt an unusual detachment, an almost agnostic attitude toward the contest of giants that would turn New Orleans's Superdome into a vast asylum for madmen, madwomen and even madchildren.2012, H. Brandt Ayers, The 2013 BCS National Championship, →ISBN. From the entry madchild

Meaning of agnostic

  1. adjective Doubtful or uncertain about the existence or demonstrability of God or other deity.
  2. adjective Having no firmly held opinions on something.
  3. adjective Of or relating to agnosticism or its adherents.

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Questions about agnostic in a sentence

How do you use agnostic in a sentence?
Agnostic is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “She left the church when she had become agnostic.”
What is a short sentence with agnostic?
“He says he's agnostic concerning the Secretary's claims.”
What does agnostic mean?
Agnostic means doubtful or uncertain about the existence or demonstrability of God or other deity.

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