How to Use infidel in a Sentence
infidel
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This is what is waiting for them in the world, these infidels in the trenches were killed one by one fleeing their homes.
—Seamus Hughes, The Atlantic, 25 May 2017
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Your safety, your obligation to true Muslims, is to join the camp of Islam, the caliphate, and take up arms against the infidels.
—Kurt Eichenwald, Newsweek, 27 Feb. 2017
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In 1139, the Church condemned the use of crossbows against Christian enemies, though they could still be used against infidels.
—Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2017
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Their infidels are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates of Baghdad.
—Leander Kahney, WIRED, 14 Apr. 2003
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To his kidnappers, Pearl was not a messenger to the outside world, but a scapegoat to be sacrificed for the sins of his fellow infidels.
—Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic, 16 Nov. 2014
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After years of abuse, some have embraced Islam and denounced their own people as infidels.
—Isabel Coles and, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2018
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My mom was also happy to shed her role as neighborhood infidel.
—Sara Eckel, Longreads, 1 June 2018
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Oh God, reward the fighters hitting the infidels and defectors.
—Jennifer Williams, Vox, 1 Aug. 2019
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Kazan was, as the narrative goes, the latest home of the infidels who had been persecuting Russian Christians for centuries.
—Sophie Pinkham, New Republic, 26 Sep. 2017
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The video reportedly shows three masked men – with one accusing the Maldives of being run by infidels and threatening follow-up attacks.
—Greg Norman | Fox News, Fox News, 6 Feb. 2020
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The video reportedly features a masked man flanked by two others wagging his finger at the camera and saying that the Maldives, an island nation in the Indian Ocean, is run by infidels.
—Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 6 Feb. 2020
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Over what — infidels, gays, society’s failure to grant him proper deference, all of it — remains unclear.
—Dan Barry, Serge F. Kovaleski, Alan Blinder and Mujib Mashal, New York Times, 18 June 2016
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Max von Sydow stars in this gripping medieval fable about a deeply religious father who wreaks revenge on infidels who rape and murder his innocent young daughter. Subtitles. 88 minutes.
—Greg Burnett, cleveland.com, 4 Mar. 2018
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Sunni extremists consider non-Muslims infidels who deserve to be killed.
—Ali Abdul-Hassan and Sinan Salaheddin, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 May 2018
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Even there, respect is hard to find, with wedding guests whispering behind the musicians’ backs, accusing them of being pimps and infidels because over the years of war people started believing music is prohibited in Islam.
—Maija Liuhto, Longreads, 28 June 2018
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The spokesman made no mention of the peace talks, but Taliban delegates there have refused to recognize the U.S.-backed Afghan government’s legitimacy to negotiate, calling it an infidel foreign puppet.
—Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2020
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But the Sunni extremists of Islamic State branded these Iraqis as infidels or heretics, and several hundred thousand members of these communities fled the group’s clutches, abandoning their property and homes.
—Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2016
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This is what is waiting for them in the world, these infidels in the trenches were killed one by one fleeing their homes.
—Seamus Hughes, The Atlantic, 25 May 2017
-
Your safety, your obligation to true Muslims, is to join the camp of Islam, the caliphate, and take up arms against the infidels.
—Kurt Eichenwald, Newsweek, 27 Feb. 2017
-
In 1139, the Church condemned the use of crossbows against Christian enemies, though they could still be used against infidels.
—Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2017
-
Their infidels are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates of Baghdad.
—Leander Kahney, WIRED, 14 Apr. 2003
-
To his kidnappers, Pearl was not a messenger to the outside world, but a scapegoat to be sacrificed for the sins of his fellow infidels.
—Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic, 16 Nov. 2014
-
After years of abuse, some have embraced Islam and denounced their own people as infidels.
—Isabel Coles and, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2018
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My mom was also happy to shed her role as neighborhood infidel.
—Sara Eckel, Longreads, 1 June 2018
-
Oh God, reward the fighters hitting the infidels and defectors.
—Jennifer Williams, Vox, 1 Aug. 2019
-
Kazan was, as the narrative goes, the latest home of the infidels who had been persecuting Russian Christians for centuries.
—Sophie Pinkham, New Republic, 26 Sep. 2017
-
The video reportedly shows three masked men – with one accusing the Maldives of being run by infidels and threatening follow-up attacks.
—Greg Norman | Fox News, Fox News, 6 Feb. 2020
-
The video reportedly features a masked man flanked by two others wagging his finger at the camera and saying that the Maldives, an island nation in the Indian Ocean, is run by infidels.
—Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 6 Feb. 2020
-
Over what — infidels, gays, society’s failure to grant him proper deference, all of it — remains unclear.
—Dan Barry, Serge F. Kovaleski, Alan Blinder and Mujib Mashal, New York Times, 18 June 2016
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Max von Sydow stars in this gripping medieval fable about a deeply religious father who wreaks revenge on infidels who rape and murder his innocent young daughter. Subtitles. 88 minutes.
—Greg Burnett, cleveland.com, 4 Mar. 2018
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