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• Perhaps we should form our own preaching band, to avoid compromise with the Christian ethic of brotherhood.2019, John Hersey, The Call: An American Missionary in China, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, →ISBN. From the entry preaching band
• As I live and breathe, Thomas, you will not flourish unless you are part of our brotherhood.2009, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Summoner’s Prologue and Tale”, in Peter Ackroyd, transl., The Canterbury Tales: [...] A Retelling, London…. From the entry as I live and breathe
• Whiplike, graceful thrilling metal dendrites drawing images from the air, bringing brotherhood, communion to immured apartment people.1970, Saul Bellow, Mr. Sammler’s Planet, Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1971, Chapter 1, pp. 12–13 (online edition). From the entry dendrite
• Quad City citizens had been systematically working for brotherhood for ten years.1955, James E. Pitt, Adventures in Brotherhood, Farrar, Straus and Company, page 1. From the entry Quad City
• All I have to do is explain that I am a monk of the brotherhood and Robert is your mother’s brother.2015, Allan Boroughs, “You’re Supposed to Be Dead”, in Bloodstone, London: Macmillan Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 139. From the entry Robert is your mother's brother
• Perhaps you have not noticed it, but there is a secret and growing brotherhood in our very midst.2006 May 23, Michelle Thaller, “The great eclipse of 2006”, in The Christian Science Monitor, archived from the original on 26 May 2006. From the entry water-cooler
• It was a sympathetic belch, a belch of brotherhood.1976, Robert Nye, Falstaff. From the entry contumely
• Something like an interglobal war would be needed to give any genuine meaning to the trite phrase of human brotherhood.1960, Paul Anthony Brick Lectures, page 50. From the entry interglobal
• But what about the harbinger of the Springtime of Nations; and Karl Marx; and the visions of the brotherhood of mankind?1951, “The Twentieth Century, Volume 150”, in Nineteenth Century and After, Limited, page 20. From the entry Springtime of Nations
• This prejudice has existed ever since the stock breeding brotherhood kidnapped the word service for their own use.1914 March 20, Cha[rle]s D[ouglass] Clem, “Chroniclettes”, in George D. Brewer, editor, The Worker’s Chronicle, volume 4, number 16…. From the entry Bill Wigglestick
• His argument was that the brotherhood didn’t really want to street race but did want all-night drag strips which the curfew laws prohibited.1991, H. F. Moorhouse, Driving Ambitions: An Analysis of the American Hot Rod Enthusiasm, Manchester; New York, N.Y.: Manchester…. From the entry street race
• No nation now believes in the utility of the ideal, in the actuability of collective righteousness, or in international brotherhood as a near possibility.1920 February, George D. Herron, “The Peace of Paris and the Youth of Europe”, in The World Tomorrow, volume III, number 2, page 36…. From the entry actuability
• Most scholars writing on the mafia were going to great lengths to demonstrate that it did not exist—and the mobsters wanted to keep their brotherhood secret.2009, Diego Gambetta, Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate, Princeton University Press, published 2009, →ISBN, page 272. From the entry go to great lengths
• Rockefeller discovered that his stenographer was so used to hearing him speak of “the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God” that she coded the cliché into BOMFOG, Mr.1970 November 4, Albin Krebs, “…and Still Governor”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry BOMFOG
• As a partial result of this feeling of brotherhood, strengthened by a closely knit system as to policy and operation, the Methodist Church manifested a splendid spirit of connexional unity.1946, John Henry Riddell, Methodism in the Middle West, The Ryerson Press, page 158. From the entry connexional

Meaning of brotherhood

1. noun The state of being brothers or a brother (also figuratively).
2. noun An association of people for any purpose, such as a society of monks; a fraternity.
3. noun All the people engaged in the same business, especially those of the same profession.

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Questions about brotherhood in a sentence

How do you use brotherhood in a sentence?

Brotherhood is used as a noun. For example: “James formed a kind of brotherhood for ex-pats who were working in Valencia.”

What is a short sentence with brotherhood?

“the legal brotherhood”

What does brotherhood mean?

Brotherhood means the state of being brothers or a brother (also figuratively).