Sentence example with the word 'shibboleth'

shibboleth

banality, byword, catchword, countersign, fad word, open sesame, pet expression, platitude, prosaism, secret grip, tag, token, vogue word

Definition n. a favorite saying of a sect or political group

Last update: December 5, 2017


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Sometimes contradiction occurs between me and my father because of his stickness to shibboleths.   [Please select]

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When the man spoke, it was obvious from his shibboleth that he was not a native English speaker.    [Please select]

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“Make America Great” is the shibboleth often repeated by the candidate’s followers.   [Please select]

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It became - to quote Professor Kattenbusch - the "secular" designation of the adherents of the Reformation, the shibboleth of the "liberal" ecclesiastical and theological tendencies.   [Please select]

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His pronouncement was scarcely uttered before it became the shibboleth of statesmen and business men.   [Please select]

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"Vote yourself a farm" became a popular shibboleth and a part of the standard programme of organized labor.   [Please select]

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Greeley, organic laws, are regarded as deceptive because the shibboleth of disloyalty and patriotism is "Republicanism."   [Please select]

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There were other Persians beyond him, for I caught the word poul--money, the perennial song and shibboleth of that folk.   [Please select]

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The Shibboleth is always absurd and in a case like the present ruinous.   [Please select]

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In proportion to the unimportance of the shibboleth was tenacity to it,--a mark which has ever characterized narrow and illiberal minds.   [Please select]

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