religious sect
Example Sentences
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Nash Athanasiou, the leader of a religious sect called the Very Good Friends, has summoned Hercule to investigate a near-fatal attack on one of his followers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
Co-written with partner and frequent collaborator Brady Corbet, the film continues their shared interest in historical fiction, this time based on the story of the founder of the religious sect known as the Shakers.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2025
The Yoders were members of the Old Order Amish, a centuries-old religious sect that practiced adult baptism and shunned such modern accoutrements as cars and the electrical power grid.
From Slate • Jul. 1, 2025
The church sits as a monument to a religious sect which once reached from Albury out to the UK and the world.
From BBC • Apr. 26, 2025
She’s on the phone of a young woman from a Montana religious sect, on a moonlit night, on the spinning and ever-changing earth.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
