Sample Sentences for
doctrine
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    While filming Groundhog Day, he said that according to Buddhist doctrine, it takes 10,000 years for a soul to evolve to its next level.
    doctrine = a system of beliefs accepted as authoritative by some group
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    She was an early critic of the separate-but-equal doctrine.
    doctrine = principle
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    "Personally I see nothing positive at all about Chris McCandless's lifestyle or wilderness doctrine," scolded another correspondent.  (source)
    doctrine = system of beliefs and principles
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    Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy all clergymen.  (source)
    doctrine = authoritative belief
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    I went back to law school with an intense desire to understand the laws and doctrines that sanctioned the death penalty and extreme punishments.  (source)
    doctrines = principles
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    And as most teenagers do, I had so many questions about my faith—whether it was compatible with modern science, for instance, or whether this or that denomination was correct on particular doctrinal disputes.  (source)
    doctrinal = related to beliefs
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    Tess, who mused on the christening a good deal, wondered if it were doctrinally sufficient to secure a Christian burial for the child.†  (source)
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    There was a divine doctrine here, he said.  (source)
    doctrine = principle
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    Down with all reactionary doctrines!  (source)
    doctrines = beliefs and principles
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    woman in mobcap and commodious dark dress, a figure lifted out of her time into the abstract arrangements of the twentieth century, long before she was ready, it seemed, but Klara also liked looking right through the tonal components, the high theory of color, the theory of paint itself, perhaps—looking into the depths of the picture, at the mother, the woman, the mother herself, the anecdotal aspect of a woman in a chair, thinking, and immensely interesting she was, so Quaker-prim and still, faraway-seeming but only because she was lost, Klara thought, in memory, caught in the midst of a memory trance, a strong and elegiac presence despite the painter's, the son's, doctrinal priorities.†  (source)
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    She pinched Celia's chin, being in the mood now to think her very winning and lovely—fit hereafter to be an eternal cherub, and if it were not doctrinally wrong to say so, hardly more in need of salvation than a squirrel.†  (source)
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    It is also that no change in doctrine or in political alignment can ever be admitted.  (source)
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    Had he sat at Hitler's feet, absorbing the doctrines of anti-Semitism?†  (source)
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