CATECHISM in a Sentence

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12 example sentences for CATECHISM, such as:

1. Then you can ask him questions on the catechism, Dedalus.
2. The rector did not ask for a catechism to hear the lesson from.
3. All the catechisms were opened and all heads bent upon them silently.
4. They are, as you know from your catechism, death, judgement, hell, and heaven.
5. I was brought up in that catechism when I was very young, sir, as you are aware.

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 Meanings and Examples of CATECHISM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
catechism
 n.  book for religious instruction; instruction by question and answer
Classic Sentence:
1  Then you can ask him questions on the catechism, Dedalus.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
2  The rector did not ask for a catechism to hear the lesson from.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
3  They are, as you know from your catechism, death, judgement, hell, and heaven.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
4  Your catechism tells you that the sacrament of Holy Orders is one of those which can be received only once because it imprints on the soul an indelible spiritual mark which can never be effaced.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
5  Care must be had nevertheless, to put the child to due and stated examination in the catechism, at thy hands or Master Dimmesdale's.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ELF-CHILD AND THE MINISTER
6  And in what way a knowledge of addition and subtraction and the catechism is going to improve their material condition, I never could make out.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 28
7  "Yes, but faith without works is dead," said Stepan Arkadyevitch, recalling the phrase from the catechism, and only by his smile clinging to his independence.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 21
8  Then I put her through the following catechism: for a girl of twenty-two it was not injudicious.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
9  Miss Ophelia busied herself very earnestly on Sundays, teaching Topsy the catechism.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
10  I was brought up in that catechism when I was very young, sir, as you are aware.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII
11  All the catechisms were opened and all heads bent upon them silently.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
Example Sentence:
1  He taught by engaging his pupils in a catechism until they gave him the correct answer.