How to Use nonreligious in a Sentence

nonreligious

adjective
  • The court ruled that the law against use of peyote applied to all, religions groups and nonreligious groups alike.
    Mark Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Sep. 2022
  • He had been raised nonreligious and his wife was raised Jewish.
    CNN, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Being nonreligious, my sister didn’t know what to do with it.
    Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 28 June 2020
  • The church opens its doors for a range of nonreligious activities.
    Jonathan M. Pitts, baltimoresun.com, 28 Oct. 2019
  • That’s a mistake, Speed argues, in part because nonreligious people are not all the same.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Here, some tips to ensure your own nonreligious wedding goes off without a hitch.
    Vogue, 23 Sep. 2017
  • The country was less diverse, and Americans had yet to push hard for the rights of the nonreligious and religious minorities.
    Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2018
  • That said, for Catholic and nonreligious reader alike, Douthat’s book asks the necessary questions.
    Tara Isabella Burton, Vox, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Critics say the bill is an affront to the separation of church and state that could alienate nonreligious people.
    USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2020
  • Religious and nonreligious Americans had the strongest sense of self, and the Buddhists, especially the monks, had the least.
    Alison Gopnik, WSJ, 6 June 2018
  • Though more Americans identify as nonreligious than ever before, the Bible Belt still lives up to its name in many ways.
    Kimber Myers, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Darren Higgins, who has a 4-year-old at the school and describes himself as nonreligious, said a compromise at this point would not make much of a difference.
    Joe Heim, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2017
  • The number rose to 79 percent among the secular and nonreligious Israelis.
    Sam Sokol, sun-sentinel.com, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Many nonreligious activists think that a greater push among Democrats, with direct pitches to the unbelievers, would push Democrats over the top in November.
    Nicholas Rowan, Washington Examiner, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Some of that’s easy to see in dress codes that have cultural biases, with schools banning head-wraps, nonreligious scarves and do-rags that are staples in some African American wardrobes.
    Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Anderson was born in Switzerland to an American father and English mother, and grew up in a nonreligious home in France.
    Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Jan. 2022
  • About 70% of all independent schools are nonreligious, while 17% are Catholic.
    Carol Ferrara, The Conversation, 24 Nov. 2020
  • One part of the family wanted a nonreligious service while the other side wanted a Christian service.
    Caleb Wilde, The Cut, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Take, as a nonreligious example, the rise of Instagram and YouTube influencers learning how to cook and sew for themselves, getting farms, and living the lives that many in the past 40 years would have termed oppressive.
    WSJ, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Clubs are nonpolitical, nonreligious and open to all cultures, races and creeds.
    Carol Kovach, cleveland, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Clubs are nonpolitical, nonreligious and open to all cultures, races and creeds.
    cleveland, 3 May 2020
  • Clubs are nonpolitical, nonreligious, and open to all cultures, races, and creeds.
    Carol Kovach, cleveland.com, 18 July 2017
  • Last year, the firm won a victory for the Encinitas School District that allowed its schools to continue their yoga programs as a form of nonreligious instruction.
    Nick Davidson, Outside Online, 1 Oct. 2014
  • That calls for equal treatment of religious and nonreligious speech, not preference.
    Elliot Mincberg, Slate Magazine, 5 May 2017
  • First, and consistent with past research, the nonreligious person was trusted less than the religious person.
    Jordan W. Moon, Quartz, 28 Dec. 2019
  • Shopkeepers for whom Saturday is their only day off complained that their nonreligious customers — suddenly able to ride to open malls — would desert them.
    David M. Halbfinger, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2020
  • Some nonreligious folks also see the church solution as nothing but an excuse for the faithful to proselytize.
    Ericka Andersen, WSJ, 11 July 2019
  • The funding at issue in the decision was for a nonreligious activity.
    New York Times, 9 May 2018
  • Trump, by contrast, aggressively campaigned to white evangelicals, who represent about the same amount of the population as the nonreligious, and pulled in 81% of their votes.
    Nicholas Rowan, Washington Examiner, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Luther challenged the prevailing notion that nonreligious or nonpolitical work was drudgery and a punishment from the gods – a view that came from Greco-Roman times.
    Garrett Potts, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2023

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