Sample Sentences for
vocation
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    You shall do that which the Council of Vocations shall prescribe for you.  (source)
    Vocations = types of jobs that people have
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    Why should not you, too, find some sort of vocation in life, Mrs. Hedda?  (source)
    vocation = a particular type of job
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    The unique exhibition which you gave of your pupils engaged in their industrial vocations was not only artistic but thoroughly impressive.  (source)
    vocations = jobs
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    I want to be happy, and I know that teaching is my vocation.†  (source)
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    Prohibition, gambling and their related vocations were so obviously practiced that it was hard for me to believe that they were against the law.†  (source)
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    What if he moves on soon to his vocation and leaves me behind?†  (source)
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    By the help of a colleague, displacements took place-a certain number of people grudgingly sighed and betook themselves to their ordinary vocations, and almost immediately other persons came along and took up their stand to gaze their fill on the spot where murder had been committed.†  (source)
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    Ser Waymar had been a Sworn Brother of the Night's Watch for less than half a year, but no one could say he had not prepared for his vocation.†  (source)
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    Soon after I was struck down and raised up again, a priest came to the school looking for vocations.†  (source)
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    For almost any other vocation or avocation—singer, potter, zookeeper, any doctor apart from a surgeon—it wouldn't have mattered.†  (source)
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    In addition to his other vocations, he was the singing-master of the neighborhood, and picked up many bright shillings by instructing the young folks in psalmody.†  (source)
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    In fact, Babi thought that the one thing the communists had done right-or at least intended to-ironically, was in the field of education, the vocation from which they had fired him.†  (source)
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    'He may have done a little in all these vocations, Mr. Lockwood; but I couldn't give my word for any.†  (source)
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