gentile

Example Sentences

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Creator-showrunner Erin Foster can’t imagine her Netflix rom-com about a progressive rabbi and a gentile sex podcaster set anywhere but her native Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2025

“We reaffirm that Jew and gentile, we are one nation under God; that black and white, we are one nation indivisible; that Republican and Democrat, we are all Americans,” he said.

From Washington Times • Jul. 3, 2023

Already aware that, being the daughter of a Jewish father and gentile mother, I was myself a demi-semite, I was worried.

From Salon • Jun. 27, 2023

As he crossed the goal line, Singleton slowed to a gentile walk, barely leapt off the ground to chest-bump a teammate and lightly tossed the ball to an official.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 21, 2022

He also made arrangements with his gentile friend Wojek to sell a few of his fine suits on the black market.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson