DOGMA in a Sentence

Learn DOGMA from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

13 example sentences for DOGMA, such as:

1. People are beginning to question the old dogmas.
2. There is nothing like dogma for bringing forth dreams.
3. The newspaper seeks to be independent of political dogma.
4. The hatred of instruction for the children of the people was a dogma.
5. I choose for my subject faith wrought into life, apart from creed or dogma.

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 Meanings and Examples of DOGMA
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
dogma
 n.  belief; doctrine
Classic Sentence:
1  The hatred of instruction for the children of the people was a dogma.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—A BIT OF HISTORY
2  They had wit; they had silence; their political dogma was suitably impregnated with arrogance; they should have succeeded.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT
3  There is nothing like dogma for bringing forth dreams.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
4  This fanaticism was neither a dogma, nor an idea, nor an art, nor a science; it was a man: Enjolras.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
5  Races which are petrified in dogma or demoralized by lucre are unfit to guide civilization.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...
6  He has preached me as a dogma; to-night he will announce me as a revelation.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5
7  She had a strange religion of transmigration of souls all her own, in which she had firm faith, troubling herself little about the dogmas of the Church.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 8
8  Geniuses in the impenetrable depths of abstraction and pure speculation, situated, so to speak, above all dogmas, propose their ideas to God.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV—WHAT HE THOUGHT
Example Sentence:
1  I choose for my subject faith wrought into life, apart from creed or dogma.
2  The concept that destiny is predetermined is a religious dogma and a philosophical delusion.
3  The newspaper seeks to be independent of political dogma.
4  Celibacy is a discipline, he said; it's not a dogma of the church.
5  People are beginning to question the old dogmas.