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• The king ordered his vassals to join him on the crusade unless they had a written note signed by the archbishop or pope.From the entry vassal
• Phil Investigates: Are Schools Secretly Transitioning Your Child?” — in an unswerving crusade against “the woke left.”2025 August 10, Matt Flegenheimer, “Dr. Phil’s Road From Oprah to ICE Raids”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry coded
• It is clear the Tory party is on an ideological crusade against my industry.2016 February 9, Trevor Merralls, “Uber is no better than an old-fashioned gangmaster – so London’s cabbies are striking”, in The Guardian. From the entry hackney carriage
• On the first night of the antimakeup crusade, policewomen kept close watch over the city's train stations.2010, Allan T. Duffin, History in Blue. From the entry antimakeup
• The Spanish mission in America soon became not so much crusade as apocalypse.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 699. From the entry apocalypse
• Unfortunately for Fletcher's antiweed crusade and western farmers in general, this time had already passed.2002, Clinton Lorne Evans, The war on weeds in the Prairie West: an environmental history. From the entry antiweed
• Peking’s claim to the Tiaoyutai is linked to its long-standing crusade to recover Taiwan itself.1980, Kim Woodard, “Rapid Change and Constraints in China's Energy Policy”, in The International Energy Relations of China, Stanford…. From the entry Tiaoyutai
• Journal has included in its propaganda work a forcible crusade against long speeches!1916 February 15, “Bodemann’s Aphorisms”, in Romaine Pierson, editor, The Practical Druggist and Pharmaceutical Review of Reviews, volume…. From the entry who would have thunk it
• From the beginning, competing impulses powered “Unsolved Mysteries”: a crusading compulsion to seek for justice and a market-driven need to entertain.2020, Alexis Soloski, “‘Unsolved Mysteries’ Returns, Because 2020 Isn’t Scary Enough”, in The New York Times. From the entry seek for
• But Hanna was far from a one-woman crusade.2001, Chérie Turner, “The Revolution”, in Everything You Need to Know About the Riot Grrrl Movement: The Feminism of a New Generation (The…. From the entry 'zine
• It is supposed that western Europe was overpopulated and that the crusades operated a beneficial reduction of numbers.1906, William Graham Sumner, Folkways: A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals, Boston: Ginn…. From the entry operate
• John of Jerusalem, who used the wort (plant) during the crusades to heal his knights' battlefield wounds, and the other was John the Baptist.1999 November, Victoria Zak, “A Modern Herbal Tea Garden”, in 20,000 Secrets of Tea: The Most Effective Ways to Benefit from Nature’s…. From the entry wort
• Remarkably, higher education's allure has persisted despite recent efforts to tarnish it by academic management and mass media orchestration of an anticollege crusade.1983, Barbara Ann Scott, Crisis Management in American Higher Education. From the entry anticollege
• Nevertheless there were some among the Egyptian sages who had not lost hope, and they carried on the earliest crusade for social justice.1935, James H. Breasted, chapter II, in The Dawn of Conscience, pages 20–21. From the entry messianism
• McCain is having in trying to build his Republican presidential campaign around his crusades for tighter ethics rules and pledges to avoid even the appearance of conflicts of interest.2008 May 17, David D. Kirkpatrick, “In Effort to Avoid Conflicts, McCain Issues New Rules for Staff”, in New York Times. From the entry midcampaign
• Even oil-less, Central Asian Afghanistan was perceived by many Muslims as the object of a crusading infidel occupation, driven by Israel and designed to establish bases or extract cheaper oil.2011, Rory Stewart, “Here we go again”, in London Review of Books, 33.VII. From the entry oilless

Meaning of crusade

1. noun Any of the Papally-endorsed military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Latin Europe in the 11th to 13th centuries to reconquer the Levant from the Muslims, as well as expeditions along the Baltic Sea and against the Cathars.
2. noun Any war instigated and blessed by the Church for alleged religious ends, (especially) papal-sanctioned military campaigns against infidels or heretics.
3. noun A grand, concerted effort towards some purportedly worthy cause.

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How do you use crusade in a sentence?

Crusade is used as a noun and verb. For example: “During the crusades, many Muslims and Christians and Jews were slaughtered.”

What is a short sentence with crusade?

“a crusade against drug abuse”

What does crusade mean?

Crusade means any of the Papally-endorsed military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Latin Europe in the 11th to 13th centuries to reconquer the Levant from the Muslims, as well as expeditions along the Baltic Sea and against the Cathars.