Sample Sentences for
crusade
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crusade as in:  a crusade against pollution

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She is crusading for women's rights.
crusading = campaigning or working for
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    That night, lying in bed, Roy felt a stronger connection to Mullet Fingers, and a better understanding of the boy's private crusade against the pancake house.  (source)
    crusade = effort for a cause thought important
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    I'll call it The Children's Crusade.  (source)
    Crusade = a long and determined effort for a cause that is passionately believed to be important
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    After all his crusading against their evil hybrid spawn?†  (source)
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    I got that bruise in Birmingham after the Children's Crusade.†  (source)
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    Mr. Andrews was from Atlanta, a brand of young white crusader who went north to get his law degree and came back changed.†  (source)
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    And I haven't even mentioned friars, crusaders, or witches.†  (source)
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    His father was always in character; Adam found it hard to believe he had been a crusading newspaperman.†  (source)
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    He was a militant idealist who crusaded against racial bigotry by growing faint in its presence.†  (source)
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    What I don't understand is—why did she do this, this Children's Crusade?†  (source)
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    Usually, two mighty armies—one Muslim, the other Crusader, the army of Rome—were arrayed for battle.†  (source)
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    Sign-carrying, card-dispensing, tripping, kicking crusaders revved up their efforts to reduce our number to zero.†  (source)
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    Martin Luther King Jr. continued his civil rights crusading and became one of the world's most admired men.†  (source)
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    You were something to be used to further his own crusade, his own sense of goodness.†  (source)
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Crusades as in:  First Crusade to Jerusalem

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Resentments date back to the Crusades.
Crusades = any of the more or less continuous military expeditions in the 11th to 13th centuries when Christian powers of Europe invaded Muslims in the Holy Land in the Middle East
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    One of the goals of the West in The First Crusade was to recapture Jerusalem after 461 years of Muslim rule.
    Crusade = the first military expeditions in the 11th to 13th centuries when Christian powers of Europe invaded Muslims in the Holy Land in the Middle East
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    As though they are noblemen in grandstands viewing fortress warfare in the years of the Crusaders.  (source)
    Crusaders = European Christian fighters in one of the military expeditions in the 11th to 13th centuries invading the Holy Land in the Middle East
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    The real Saladin had united the Muslim world under the Ayyubid dynasty and recaptured Jerusalem from the Crusaders.  (source)
    Crusaders = European Christian fighters of invasions of the Middle East in the 11th to 13th centuries
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    Mackay had a low opinion of all Crusades.†  (source)
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    "Imbuing violence with holy meaning," wrote the historian Iris Chang, "the Japanese imperial army made violence a cultural imperative every bit as powerful as that which propelled Europeans during the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition."†  (source)
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    A sculpture fashioned by knights of the Crusades from gold and jewels as tribute to a king, it is an emblem of the church and the monarchies—those rapacious institutions that have served as the foundation for all of Europe's art and ideas.†  (source)
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    Why, we fought in the crusades with Richard the Lion Heart, crossed the Atlantic with Columbus, blazed trails with the pioneers, and today many members of the family hold prominent government positions throughout the world.†  (source)
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    The themes were the same that had been illuminated upon similar occasions by their mothers before them, their grandmothers, and doubtless all their ancestors in the female line clear back to the Crusades.†  (source)
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    They were traitors to the people of course, all of them, men, women, and children, who happened to be descendants of the great men who since the Crusades had made the glory of France: her old NOBLESSE.†  (source)
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    I knew about the Crusades, and I knew that there had been fighting and atrocities forever.†  (source)
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    The Crusades must have been a little like this.†  (source)
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    That's part of what the Crusades were about.†  (source)
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    When it was first turning out cruisers and destroyers the Crusades were in full swing.†  (source)
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