How to Use heathen in a Sentence

heathen

noun

• European colonizers, who considered the New World peoples to be heathens, forced them to conform to European ways.
• The heathen Cardinals are in town tonight, for the first of four.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 12 Apr. 2018
• Savages and heathens, lowly and oppressed, hailed and welcomed it at the far end of the wide world.
  — Josh Axelrod and Saeed Ahmed, CNN, 14 June 2018
• There was still a certain code of the road between ballplayers and the heathens that covered them.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 14 July 2019
• Rather than indulge her heathen wishes, the school’s PTA has cancelled the whole event.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2020
• What’s shocking, but shouldn’t be, has been the reaction of some fans and media heathens.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• And then there are the crusaders who are trying to claim the heathen Eastern European lands for democracy and freedom.
  — Keith Gessen, New York Times, 8 May 2018
• Anyone who besmirches his sanctity is a heathen, a liar or—even worse—a Democrat.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 12 Feb. 2018
• Another resident said the militants used the excuse of smashing heathen tombstones to search the grounds.
  — Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 11 July 2019
• Unfortunately for heathens, there are racists who have also adopted the Ásatrú faith.
  — Sigal Samuel, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2017
• Nobody much until now has taken seriously the idea that the 45th president is a man of deep and abiding faith who is just misconstrued as a heathen.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 14 July 2017
• The outcome is what matters.’’ The Bengals locker room was mostly empty Wednesday during the 45 minutes the heathen media were allowed in.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 18 Oct. 2017
• The worst thing a coach/manager/athlete can do to a heathen media member is insulting his or her intelligence.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 28 Sep. 2017
• Even in normal draft seasons, the amount of non-information presented by us heathens is staggering.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 9 Apr. 2020
• Not one penny of American treasure should be granted to any nation who harbors these heathen animals.
  — Paul Blest, New Republic, 6 July 2017
• Christine, my personal hall monitor, suggested that some might see us as heathens, boys running wild with guns and ill-prepared for our adventure.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 5 June 2019
• The colonizers, charged exclusively with the mission to bring back treasure and convert heathens to Christianity, were incapable of seeing the natives of the New World in any other context.
  — Tom Gjelten, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2019
• The point was to propagate, from the loudest bully pulpit in history, the worst stereotypes of Muslims as bearded heathen coming to destroy Western culture and civilization.
  — Omer Aziz, New Republic, 22 Dec. 2017
• Regardless, a little heathen-media disrespeck never hurt a team needing to avoid 1st-round disaster.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 12 Mar. 2018
• Frank Chin argued that first-person writing was a vestige of Christian conquest, when heathens would demonstrate their worth by participating in stories of self-discovery and consciousness.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2019
• Stupid American heathens bringing their fancy tuxedos into houses of worship.
  — Jessica Pan, The Cut, 17 May 2018
• Not only was its population warlike, heathen and independent, the country itself is immensely long and broken by innumerable fjords, each with its patch of habitable land, almost inaccessible except by sea.
  — Tom Shippey, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2017
• During the first half of the 20th century, American missionaries began developing relatively generous attitudes toward the people they had been taught to regard as heathen and backward, if not inferior.
  — David A. Hollinger, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2017
• European colonizers, who considered the New World peoples to be heathens, forced them to conform to European ways.
• The heathen Cardinals are in town tonight, for the first of four.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 12 Apr. 2018
• Savages and heathens, lowly and oppressed, hailed and welcomed it at the far end of the wide world.
  — Josh Axelrod and Saeed Ahmed, CNN, 14 June 2018
• There was still a certain code of the road between ballplayers and the heathens that covered them.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 14 July 2019
• Rather than indulge her heathen wishes, the school’s PTA has cancelled the whole event.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2020
• What’s shocking, but shouldn’t be, has been the reaction of some fans and media heathens.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• And then there are the crusaders who are trying to claim the heathen Eastern European lands for democracy and freedom.
  — Keith Gessen, New York Times, 8 May 2018

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