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How to use vocation in a sentence

21 example sentences · noun

Vocation means a divine calling to establish one's lifestyle. Example: “The Catholic Church supports and teaches us that there are three vocations: the single life, married life, and the religious life or priesthood.”

Examples of vocation by meaning

nounA divine calling to establish one's lifestyle.

  • The Catholic Church supports and teaches us that there are three vocations: the single life, married life, and the religious life or priesthood.

nounAn occupation for which a person is suited, trained or qualified.

  • Nursing is a vocation that many people find horrendous.

More sentences with vocation

  • The nun's deportment reflected her vocation.From the entry deportment
  • One can enter Swiftiedom at any level: avocation or vocation, background music or full-time job.2023 October 12, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, “My Delirious Trip to the Heart of Swiftiedom”, in The New York Times. From the entry Swiftiedom
  • The colleges were male bastions, and academic study was meant to be a semi-monastic vocation.2010, Thomas J. Schaeper, Kathleen Schaeper, “Yanks and Brits”, in Rhodes Scholars, Oxford, and the Creation of an American Elite, New…. From the entry semimonastic
  • Obermiller, director of vocations for the Congregation of Holy Cross at the University of Notre Dame.2009 February 25, Paul Vitello, “A Guy’s Guy: Dolan’s Personality May Help Archdiocese Recruit More Priests”, in New York Times. From the entry banterer
  • The religious priest lives his priesthood vocation within the religious congregation to which he belongs.2001, John P. Mack, Priests: An Inside Look, Saint Mary's Press, →ISBN, page 28. From the entry religious
  • Is buffery a hobby, a vocation, a stage of development or a pathology?1979, Take One, volume 7, page 35. From the entry buffery
  • Mousinho's pulverating vocation can be summed up in the following word of immense meaning : «Serving».1936, Boletim geral das colónias - Issues 127-132, page 257. From the entry pulverate
  • Man, you are a walking neon sign advertising your vocation.1972, Jack Pearl, Victims, page 42. From the entry high-side
  • And it was worse still that a good general should be a writer of bad books and see that as his vocation.1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 168. From the entry as against
  • To these attributes of the sacer vates we can add the religious radicalism that prevented both men from making a profession of their vocation.1970, Michael Hamburger, Contraries: Studies in German Literature. From the entry sacer vates
  • ASIATIC civilization is the product of “Mesopotamias”, of great alluvial plains where the natural fertility of the soil stimulated man’s agricultural vocation.1952, René Grousset, “Chinese Earth”, in The Rise and Splendour of the Chinese Empire, University of California Press, published 1970…. From the entry Central Plain
  • He was a sallow, dyspeptic man, with a premature shock of grey hair, attached to the stage as an occupation but not a vocation.1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 23. From the entry dyspeptic
  • With the possible exception of cliquishness, in each of these regards Fenton is more like Larkin: plain-spoken, unprolific and firmly in possession of a deflated sense of poetic vocation.2007 February 11, Stephen Metcalf, “Informal Menace”, in New York Times. From the entry unprolific
  • I had high hopes when I moved to Spyglass, but simpering gossip on celebrity parties seems to be the closest I've gotten so far to Dad's vocation.2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN. From the entry simpering
  • Henderson would interpret Guthlac’s sudden discovery of a religious vocation as a means of escaping a worse fate when retribution was sought for the queen’s death.2000, Barbara Yorke, “Æthelbald, Offa and the Patronage of Nunneries”, in David Hill, Margaret Worthington, editors, Æthelbald and Offa…. From the entry reginacide
  • With an almost imperceptible touch, the narrator connects up this oneirism of names with the premonitory signs of the vocation that Remebrance is said to recount.1990, Paul Ricœur, Time and Narrative, volume 2, page 138. From the entry oneirism
  • As a seer of beautiful visions, or, shall we say, of visions of the beautiful, he is never weary of celebrating the poet and his vocation.1924, Arthur Eustace Morgan, Tendencies of Modern English Drama, page 140. From the entry seer
  • Amelia may soon return to her roots in TV production as she completes an exciting pilot about car culture, a nice integration of vocation and avocation for this particular motorhead.2023 December 13, “SoCal Car Guru Motorhead Mama Shares Sage Advice for Potential EV Buyers”, in Golden State. From the entry motorhead
  • It is difficult to put into words, but for the "trufan" science-fiction or the magazines entered his life more than a hobby and only a little less than a vocation.1998, Everett Franklin Bleiler, Science-fiction: The Gernsback Years, →ISBN, Introduction, page xxix. From the entry trufan

Meaning of vocation

  1. noun A divine calling to establish one's lifestyle.
  2. noun An occupation for which a person is suited, trained or qualified.

Full definition of vocation

Questions about vocation in a sentence

How do you use vocation in a sentence?
Vocation is used as a noun. For example: “The Catholic Church supports and teaches us that there are three vocations: the single life, married life, and the religious life or priesthood.”
What is a short sentence with vocation?
“The nun's deportment reflected her vocation.”
What does vocation mean?
Vocation means a divine calling to establish one's lifestyle.

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