How to Use nonbeliever in a Sentence

nonbeliever

noun
  • None of that means anything to nonmembers, nonbelievers who think all of this is a bunch of baloney.
    Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Sep. 2023
  • And, the church hopes, perhaps even nonbelievers who are curious about the faith will watch.
    New York Times, 13 Oct. 2019
  • Would a truly loving God send nonbelievers to hell, even those who have never heard the gospel?
    Justin Chang, latimes.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Victor, a nonbeliever among the faithful in this story built around the theme of choice, is not wrong to use a military metaphor.
    Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Barr comes close to denying the rights of nonbelievers to express their disbelief.
    Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Westwood's ability to inspire even the most nonbelievers of the power of fashion has served her well for decades.
    refinery29.com, 11 June 2018
  • Award-winning writer and young-adult author Jason Reynolds aims his books at the nonbelievers.
    Alexandra Rockey Fleming, PEOPLE.com, 24 Oct. 2017
  • But, sometimes a nonbeliever just needs to hear a convincing story from the right person.
    refinery29.com, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Our pastors and leaders told us that nonbelievers in the world would mistreat us, insult us and even persecute us.
    Robb Ryerse, Time, 12 Feb. 2020
  • The poll found that 19% of those who believe climate is warming use alternatives to driving, compared to 7% of the nonbelievers.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2019
  • The enduring challenge for any activist is both to dream of almost-unimaginable justice and to make the case to nonbelievers that your dreams are practical.
    Elizabeth Barber, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2023
  • There’s evidence that nonbelievers are willing to pay more for beach houses.
    Nerdwallet, cleveland, 15 Dec. 2019
  • For nonbelievers, candles and statues may seem like silly vessels for hopes, especially when the stakes are so high.
    Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 20 June 2018
  • If this were a Hollywood movie, as opposed to real life, Andy, the sensitive misfit, would triumph over the bullies and meanies, the nonbelievers who scoffed and sneered, treated him like dirt and a joke.
    Lili Anolik, Vanities, 14 Dec. 2017
  • Some objectors are nonbelievers, some are Christian but not devout, some are, like me, Jewish.
    James Poniewozik, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2023
  • But this also opens up to the Fins an historically unique stage on which to preen, dance and otherwise declare themselves to the doubters (or to pratfall as those same nonbelievers smugly nod).
    Greg Cote, miamiherald, 25 Oct. 2017
  • In that case, a jury found last year that the border towns that form the sect’s home base denied nonbelievers police protection, building permits and water hookups on the basis of religion.
    Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2017
  • The title offers up his flippant response to nonbelievers who’ve attempted to discredit him, both in the beginning of his career and now.
    Kenan Draughorne, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The Framers believed that free government was suitable for believers and nonbelievers alike.
    Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Outside, among the nonbelievers, generations of questions and myths have swirled around Garcia and the two apostles before him — his father and grandfather.
    Brittny Mejia, latimes.com, 27 June 2019
  • An Arizona jury found last year that the border towns that form the town’s home base denied nonbelievers police protection, building permits and water hookups on the basis of religion.
    Lindsay Whitehurst, The Seattle Times, 6 Sep. 2017
  • This is most apparent when watching Thomas interact with his family, a clan of nonbelievers.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Mar. 2023
  • In recent years, only a small handful of members of Congress have identified themselves as nonbelievers.
    David Crary, The Seattle Times, 11 Sep. 2018
  • Lewis is an Oxford don who has not yet written his beloved Narnia books, but who has recently embraced Christianity after years as a nonbeliever.
    Stephen Farber, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Seated in a circle around her, their faces lit by a crackling campfire, 20 nonbelievers listened with reverent attention.
    Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Aeris’ Carricante from Sicily’s Etna area that will convert a nonbeliever into a worshiper.
    Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Feb. 2022
  • They had been told that they were being questioned only in order to segregate the prison wards according to believers and nonbelievers and their affiliations.
    Kasra Naji, Foreign Affairs, 17 Aug. 2016
  • Of course, there’s always the chance of religious minorities and nonbelievers being mis-holidayed, but reasonable people should be able to overlook that, assuming it’s not done out of malice.
    Rich Lowry, National Review, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Like many religious and spiritual groups, the Source Family placed their faith in things invisible to nonbelievers.
    Erin Osmon, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2023
  • In my experience, nonbelievers are no less loving of their neighbors than believers.
    Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2019

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