How to Use secular in a Sentence

secular

adjective

• Both secular and religious institutions can apply for the funds.
• The secular schools don't even put the questions on the table.
  — Freep.com, 8 Oct. 2021
• The 1987 crash was in the midst of a massive secular bill market.
  — Joseph N. Distefano, Philly.com, 3 Nov. 2017
• There are some secular longer-term trends that could help the stock, as well.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
• The colony’s bishop, Peters, hopes to hide all this from the secular world.
  — Sarah Jones, The New Republic, 26 June 2019
• New York is a city of secular churches—and for three months the pews have been empty.
  — Elias Williams, National Geographic, 15 June 2020
• Takhween is the secular version of that: to declare someone a traitor (kha’in) to the nation.
  — Sam Sweeney, National Review, 6 Sep. 2020
• More than half of these funds went to secular non-profits here in San Diego.
  — Lisa Deaderick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 June 2017
• Way too much twang for my taste in both the sacred and secular carols.
  — Luis Melgar, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023
• All that adds up to something that feels like secular gospel, complete with the stomps.
  — Allison P. Davis, The Cut, 22 June 2018
• Here are the details of sacred and secular objects at the center of the royal event.
  — Elise Brisco, USA TODAY, 3 May 2023
• This is a problem in the eyes of a certain sort of secular liberal.
  — Timothy P. Carney, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
• As the nation as a whole became more secular, the Christian right grew in strength and in numbers.
  — Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2020
• But the song was a hit across the board, and received airplay on secular radio stations as well.
  — Brooklyn White, Essence, 14 Apr. 2020
• Stressing the secular change in the business is likely to carry weight on Wall Street.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Jan. 2023
• Iceland is one of the most secular nations in the world, but there is no separation of church and state.
  — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2017
• We weren’t allowed to go to movies, listen to secular music, or watch TV.
  — Aaron Hartzler, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2018
• The market does not have a good record of crossing the fault line between secular tech and cyclical themes smoothly.
  — Oliver Renick, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2021
• This is true both for more secular and more religious Jews.
  — Randall P. Lieberman, Jewish Journal, 17 Aug. 2017
• And in this case, Hybel said, Fitzgerald's work was secular.
  — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 5 June 2023
• In part the response has pitted a religious right against a more secular left.
  — Dina Kraft, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Mar. 2022
• Elsewhere in the movement, there was open talk of moving past him for more secular reasons.
  — New York Times, 19 July 2022
• Khalid’s father was secular, which was unusual for an Iraqi at the time.
  — WIRED, 5 Jan. 2023
• But the city banned its appearance, saying no non-secular flags could be flown.
  — Fox News, 16 July 2019
• In it, the artist deals with the profoundly secular world in which cheats prevail over innocence.
  — Dallas News, 21 June 2019
• The outright pushiness of it all has cheapened secular Christmas in my mind.
  — Donna Vickroy, Daily Southtown, 8 Sep. 2017
• The main two sects of Judaism are secular and orthodox.
  — Jason Fontelieu, Baltimore Sun, 23 Sep. 2022
• After years of singing in church, Clayton dipped her toe in secular music.
  — Elise Brisco, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2022
• In a secular, capitalist world, this psychiatric framework is the most effective form of social control.
  — David Peisner, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2024
• Protests near the Egyptian border to halt aid delivery into Gaza were first organized by religious Zionists, but now draw secular participants.
  — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 7 Jan 2025