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1. They thought the religious sect was guilty of brainwashing.
2. Then she might have come down to us in history, hand in hand with Ann Hutchinson, as the foundress of a religious sect.
3. But the petition was already breathed, nor could all the narrow prejudices of her sect induce Rebecca to wish it recalled.
4. The founder of a sect or party, or an inventor, impresses us less when we know how or by what the way was prepared for his activity.
5. I computed the number of our people, by reckoning how many millions there might be of each religious sect, or political party among us.

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 Meanings and Examples of SECT
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sect
 n.  separate religious body; faction united by common interests or beliefs
Classic Sentence:
1  I computed the number of our people, by reckoning how many millions there might be of each religious sect, or political party among us.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VI.
2  Then she might have come down to us in history, hand in hand with Ann Hutchinson, as the foundress of a religious sect.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
3  But the petition was already breathed, nor could all the narrow prejudices of her sect induce Rebecca to wish it recalled.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
4  The founder of a sect or party, or an inventor, impresses us less when we know how or by what the way was prepared for his activity.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER IX
5  This is what socialism said outside and above a few sects which have gone astray; that is what it sought in facts, that is what it sketched out in minds.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
6  This is enough to say concerning commonwealths, but as regards sects, we see from the instance of our own religion that here too a like renewal is needed.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I.
Example Sentence:
1  The film opens with a shot of the ancient forum in Rome, where several senators are discussing the strange new sect known as Christians.
2  A peculiar attribute of this sect is the character of many of its members: bankers, civil service officials, navy officers, army officers and others of the finest professions.
3  They thought the religious sect was guilty of brainwashing.