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• He was formerly with the sect of the Pharisees, but now he is a Nazarene.From the entry Nazarene
• Some religious sects frown upon any games of chance, even if no gambling is involved.From the entry game of chance
• The Edhi Foundation is unusual in its ignoring of caste, creed, religion and sect.2017 April 6, Samira Shackle, “On the frontline with Karachi’s ambulance drivers”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on…. From the entry creed
• I think it would be better to leave the position of sect leader to Junior Brother Guangxia.2016, Reggie Hanlon, Tragedy on a Light-Year Scale. From the entry Han Chinese
• Many Shias who had become more Sunni in their religious practices reverted back to their original sect.2012, Eamon Murphy, The Making of Terrorism in Pakistan: Historical and social roots ..., page 98. From the entry Sunni
• It also prepared the ground for the Zaydist sect, which appealed to a dissatisfied people.2005, Elham Manea, Regional Politics in the Gulf: Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen, p 19. From the entry Zaydist
• Pilgrims of all sects throng this temple on auspicious occasion of every fullmoon.2002, Ram Dayal Rakesh, Pilgrimage Tourism in Nepal, page 35. From the entry fullmoon
• The three major branches or sects are the Twelvers, Seveners, and Fivers.1998, Emory C. Bogle, Islam: Origin and Belief, University of Texas Press, page 145. From the entry fiver
• Then, less melodiously, dissenters of different sects issue a cantankerous emendation.1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished…. From the entry emendation
• It is that every sectarian is more sectarian in his unsectarianism than he is in his sect.1922, G. K. Chesterton, What I Saw in America. From the entry unsectarianism
• One reason there are sects is that it is easy to be sectish.1920, D.S. Warner, J.C. Fisher, The Gospel Trumpet, volume 40, page 5. From the entry sectish
• The Baath was the party of the downtrodden, stacked with minorities and the rural poor of all sects, including Sunni.2018, Rania Abouzeid, No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria. From the entry Baath
• But the Shī'a was not yet a sect; there can as yet be no division of Islam between Shi'ite and Sunni.2016, Abdul Ganiy Oloruntele, The Sunni and the Shi’A: History, Doctrines and Discrepancies. From the entry Shi'a
• The other sect, the indiscriminative sect, resembled Daoism in that the emphasis was on the equality of things.2016, Chih-yu Shih, Po-tsan Yu, Post-Western International Relations Reconsidered, page 37. From the entry indiscriminative
• They are all now forgotten: the law of extinction seems to apply as ruthlessly to sects as it does to species.2011, Robin Fox, The Tribal Imagination: Civilization and the Savage Mind, page 97. From the entry Wilkinsonian
• This kind of smiling, bossy sanctimoniousness was a little too pervasive for Toby, especially among the female members of the sect.2009, Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood, Virago Press (2020), page 56. From the entry sanctimoniousness
• By that sect the devils were thought cruel, revengeful, capricious, and only able to be appeased by blood sacrifices and devil-dancing.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 33. From the entry devil dancing
• DUNKERS, a sect of Quakerist Baptists in the United States.1920, P. Austin Nuttall, J. Wood, The Nuttall Encyclopedia, Library of Alexandria, →ISBN. From the entry Quakerist
• Peakism has been called a sort of Left Behind for liberals, and apocalyptic sects are known, after all, for proving remarkably resilient.2015 November 4, Scott McLemee, “Past Its Peak”, in Inside Higher Ed. From the entry peakism
• At stake for the Amish community in the rumspringa process is nothing less than the survival of their sect and way of life.2007, Tom Shachtman, Rumspringa: To Be or Not to Be Amish, North Point Press, →ISBN. From the entry rumspringa
• The reason for this are to be found in the polysectarian nature of Lebanon with the largest sect being a minority of the total population.1974, Pakistan Horizon, Pakistan Institute of International Affairs, v.27, pg. 19. From the entry polysectarian
• The trishula is most commonly associated with the god Shiva, one of the most prominent Hindu deities and the primary god in the sect of Hinduism known as "Shaivism."2014, Micah Issitt, Carlyn Main, Hidden Religion, page 168. From the entry trisula
• Perhaps not surprisingly, the Ismacili Nizari sect led by Hasan al-Sabbah seems to have been far better established in Iraq al-Ajam and northern Syria than in Khurasan.2010, Osman Aziz Basan, The Great Seljuqs: A History, page 39. From the entry Iraq al-Ajam
• For if the unbaptized children who venture into the world at sixteen do not later return to the fold in sufficient numbers, the sect will dwindle and die out.2007, Tom Shachtman, Rumspringa: To Be or Not to Be Amish, North Point Press, →ISBN. From the entry rumspringa
• According to a third, decoherence sects a locally preferred basis for each observer that makes the right physical facts determinate from the perspective of that particular observer.1999, Jeffrey A. Barrett, The Quantum Mechanics of Minds and Worlds, Oxford University Press, page 221. From the entry decoherence
• The apocalyptic theology of the Jehovah's Witnesses is not as popular today as other fundamentalist beliefs, but their founding and history are typical of other neotraditionalist sects.1988 March 25, Dan Liberty, “Saying NO to Fundamentalism”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry neotraditionalist
• The Aglipayan Church is next with 12%; while the rest of the population is divided into different Protestant sects, the INC (Iglesia Ni Cristo) and other denominations.1987, Miguela Gonzalez Yap, The making of Cory, Cellar Book Shop. From the entry inc
• Grindletonianism is the only English sect which takes its name from a place rather than a person or set of beliefs, and there is significance in this.1972, Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down, Folio Society, published 2016, page 62. From the entry Grindletonianism
• Even if we grant that the "gelasts" are getting reduced to the dimensions of a petty sect, the consideration need not deter us from choosing laughter as our theme.1902, James Sully, An Essay on Laughter: Its Forms, Its Causes, Its Development and Its Value, London; […]: Longmans, Green, and Co., page 2. From the entry gelast
• The kingdom's legitimacy derives from the Wahhabi sect of Islam, a Sunni Muslim group that attacked Shiite shrines in Iraq in the nineteenth century, and today systematically discriminates against Shias.2012, Satish, “New book on Shias by Hamid Dabashi”, in soc.culture.iranian (Usenet). From the entry Shiaphobia
• Young Iraqis of both sects obeyed the imams' ruling last week by rushing to conscription offices in hot, dirty, dusty Bagdad to offer themselves or their money for the jihad.1938 August 22, “Holy War”, in Time. From the entry jihad

Meaning of sect

1. noun An offshoot of a larger religion or denomination.
2. noun A group following a specific ideal or a leader.
3. noun A cutting; a scion.

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Questions about sect in a sentence

How do you use sect in a sentence?

Sect is used as a noun. For example: “He was formerly with the sect of the Pharisees, but now he is a Nazarene.”

What is a short sentence with sect?

“a religious sect”

What does sect mean?

Sect means an offshoot of a larger religion or denomination.