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shibboleth

How to use shibboleth in a sentence

We often hear the old shibboleth that “we’re fighting them abroad, so we won’t have to fight them at home.”

In all large towns a few of this complexion may be found; and in Preston odd ones exist whose shibboleth is “Christian Brethren.”

And the Spaniard, as he uttered this emphatic shibboleth, gnashed his teeth with vexation.

Why is a gentleman of property to be kept out in the cold by some O'Mullins because he will not mutter an unmeaning shibboleth?

And the physical Hakim could by no test or shibboleth be prevented from silently introducing the spiritual Hakim.

She had none of the shibboleth spirit that leads certain people to die or slay for a pronunciation.

This law, expressed by Goethe, is the controlling shibboleth in all Haeckel's philosophy.

But the mal-pronunciation of the shibboleth strikes deep centers of racial feeling and makes action spring faster than thought.

In pamphlets lawyers will meet with their chicanery, physicians with their cant, divines with their Shibboleth.

The matter of the oaths, they agreed, it was time enough to dispute about, whenever the shibboleth should be tendered.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985