How to Use sect in a Sentence

sect

noun

• Where are those gaps that allow someone to end up in the clutches of a sect?
  — Holly Jones, Variety, 27 Sep. 2023
• In our household rose a new gospel, a new church, a new Sinclair sect.
  — Safiya Sinclair, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• Leaders of the sect have made antisemitic statements in the past.
  — Chris Pandolfo, Fox News, 12 Dec. 2023
• All the while, Nick Cave — the rangy leader of this ad-hoc religious sect — leaps from one side of the stage to the other.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 29 Mar. 2022
• In this sect, women are viewed as second-class and subservient to men.
  — Lauren Lantry, ABC News, 22 June 2023
• The blast, which was heard more than 20 miles away, killed Venta and six other sect members.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2021
• After all, the goal is to get more people into EVs, not cater strictly to the too-cool-for-school sect.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 9 Aug. 2023
• Then the remnants of an extreme religious sect from Earth found their way to the same planet.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 4 Dec. 2021
• Four agents and 76 members of the sect were killed, and Dr. Stone’s panel was charged with assessing whether the tragedy could have been avoided.
  — New York Times, 1 Feb. 2022
• Clériga then asked the six-time national champion coach for a message to the sect of fans from the deep south.
  — Nick Alvarez | [e-mail], al, 19 Sep. 2022
• At least 75 members of the Branch Davidian sect died in a fire that began during the raid.
  — CNN, 6 Apr. 2022
• The mayor will present Ahmad, the fifth successor to the sect’s founder who challenged Dowie, with a key to the city as a symbol of trust and friendship.
  — Deepa Bharath, ajc, 1 Oct. 2022
• Some say the texts came from diverse sources; others attribute them all to a Jewish sect that lived near the 12 caves in the first century A.D.
  — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 6 Oct. 2022
• The region where the attack took place is known for conflict between Sunni and Shia sects of Islam.
  — Sophia Saifi, CNN, 4 May 2023
• The Texas town was the site of the 1993 face-off between government agents and the Branch Davidian religious sect.
  — Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 25 Mar. 2023
• One man remains behind — August (Ben Whishaw), who left the sect when his mother was expelled.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 4 Jan. 2023
• As well as an eye-opening docuseries about a religious sect.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 4 June 2022
• The sect had once ruled Yemen for centuries but was marginalized under the Sunni regime that came to power after a 1962 civil war.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 20 Dec. 2023
• The group traces its history to a religious revival movement for the Zaydi sect of Shi'ite Islam in the late 1990s.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 20 Dec. 2023
• Born in 1754 to a soldier, Gillray attended a school run by the Moravian Brethren, a strict Protestant sect with a bleak view of human nature.
  — William Anthony Hay, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
• The board approved the school despite a state law requiring public schools to be free of control from any religious sect.
  — USA TODAY, 6 June 2023
• In effect, there’s a sect of onlookers viewing this circumstance akin to a baseball lineup where the heart of the order hasn’t stepped up to bat.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2023
• This slim parka is one of the founding members of the cool outerwear sect, with quilted and contrasting lining to keep you warm and stylish.
  — Christian Gollayan, Men's Health, 19 Dec. 2022
• Toews grew up in Steinbach, Manitoba, a member of the same Mennonite sect to which the book’s colonists belong.
  — Bonnie Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2023
• There is no reason to restrict love and success to a Bible verse of a highly specific religious sect.
  — The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2024
• Koreshan was once home to a religious sect who established a settlement on the banks of the Estero River in 1893.
  — Outside Online, 10 Jan. 2022
• There’s Asher Rubin, a lovelorn eye doctor who takes in a runaway from the Frankist sect after Jacob impregnates her.
  — Jake Bittle, The New Republic, 2 Mar. 2022
• The oral and dental medicine specialist belongs to the Shiite sect of Islam — viewed by many hard-line Sunni Muslims as heretical.
  — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2022
• But the changes for the sect have not come without intense backlash, and conservative Buddhists have threatened to burn Drukpa temples.
  — Sameer Yasir Saumya Khandelwal, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2023
• Pietism, in turn, had a great influence on many Christian sects, including the New England Puritans.
  — Ian Buruma, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024