How to Use cardinal in a Sentence

cardinal

1 of 2 noun

• The Pope appointed two new cardinals this year.
• There are deer in the woods, large-mouth bass in the water and cardinals in the air.
  — Jeanne Houck, Cincinnati.com, 28 Apr. 2017
• The cardinals flash, again, like fire over our little piece of sky.
  — Southern Living, 1 May 2017
• An up-close image of the fiend, lurking above the cardinal's deathbed.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 10 Nov. 2023
• If a show trial for a cardinal doesn’t do it, what would?
  — William McGurn, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2022
• In fact a number of the cardinals from Brazil and bishops are friends of Pope Francis.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 June 2017
• The path to the College Football Playoff isn’t quite paved with cardinal and gold just yet.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2022
• Later that year, he was named a cardinal, the top cadre of the church from which popes are selected.
  — Rachel Donadio, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2022
• These seed heads are a great source of food for cardinals, finches and chickadees.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 12 Aug. 2023
• Ratzinger was born in Bavaria in 1927, was raised in a devout Catholic family, and wanted to be a cardinal from the age of five.
  — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 4 Jan. 2023
• The cardinal’s groupies, and the synod’s enemies, hung around, too.
  — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• Lichtman: Picture a cardinal getting off the ground, pushing its wings up and down, fast and hard.
  — Flora Lichtman, Scientific American, 31 May 2023
• Eighteen of the 21 new cardinals are younger than 80 and would be eligible to vote in a conclave.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 9 July 2023
• Hamas is unlikely to take the cardinal up on his offer.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 20 Oct. 2023
• Red is also the tunic of cardinals, as well as the velvet cloak of aristocrats.
  — Selene Oliva, Glamour, 18 Sep. 2023
• My top-three favorite birds: The northern cardinal—male or female plumage—in the dead of winter, no leaves on the trees, dark bark with snowy white background.
  — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 5 June 2020
• Soon after, he was named a cardinal, a member of the administrative body that elects the pope.
  — Mathew Schmalz, The Conversation, 31 Dec. 2022
• An Italian cardinal told reporters he had been informed that the pope was doing well.
  — Fox News, 5 July 2021
• Benedict then returned to the Vatican, no longer a pope or cardinal.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2023
• The ceiling was to be shared by a bon vivant, learned cardinal with a select audience of like-minded men.
  — Monika Schmitter, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2023
• Instead, the Jesuit cardinal of Buenos Aires was elected.
  — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
• After a decade in power — longer than many had expected — the 87-year-old Francis has named most of the cardinals who will pick his replacement.
  — Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2023
• With this pop-up card, your sweetheart will get to a surprise paper basket full of cardinals and cherry blossoms.
  — Moriah Mason, Southern Living, 1 Feb. 2024
• The Italian cardinal was a star, even mentioned as a potential future pope.
  — Francis X. Rocca, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2023
• With the latest appointments, the number of cardinals who meet that condition stands at 137.
  — Frances D'emilio, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2023
• The Walworth County charge is the latest development in a years-long fall from grace for the once-powerful cardinal.
  — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2023
• The prelate, 60, is the first member of the Dalit community, considered the lowest rung of India's caste system, to become a cardinal.
  — Frances D'emilio, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2022
• The prelate, 60, is the first member of the Dalit community, considered the lowest rung of India’s caste system, to become a cardinal.
  — Frances D'emilio, al, 27 Aug. 2022
• Not waiting for the verdict of a Vatican court, Francis also removed his rights as a cardinal.
  — Fox News, 27 July 2021
• The church has softened its tone on those issues in recent years, and New York’s current cardinal, Timothy Dolan, has said the church should be more welcoming of gay people.
  — Liam Stack, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024

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cardinal

2 of 2 adjective

• My cardinal rule is to always be honest.
• But never break the cardinal rule: Don’t break the bank.
  — Virginia Van Zanten, Vogue, 22 Mar. 2023
• The Yalalag dancers associate it with the four cardinal points and the union of the peoples who live in the mountains of the state.
  — Fernanda Pérez Sánchez, Vogue, 8 Aug. 2022
• The cardinal rule of drug smuggling is don’t get pulled over.
  — John Koopman, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2023
• The cardinal rule of the internet ought to be: Caveat emptor.
  — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• One of the cardinal rules of sportswriting is that writers don’t root.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Aug. 2021
• The cardinal rule of stargazing is going somewhere dark — the darker the skies, the better the view.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 11 Aug. 2023
• This was the ancients’ guide for placing the four cardinal signs in the zodiac.
  — Emily Simone, Allure, 20 May 2022
• So much so that he was charged with sedition, the cardinal colonial sin.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2020
• The cardinal rule of bedtime is simple: Don’t look under the bed.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 10 Jan. 2023
• Brady also owned up to the cardinal sin of getting ahead of herself.
  — New York Times, 18 Feb. 2021
• And the corners of the Great Pyramid of Giza also align well with the cardinal directions — north, south, east, and west.
  — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 5 Mar. 2021
• Aries Aries, a cardinal fire sign, has a lot in common with Capricorn.
  — Katie Mannion, Peoplemag, 12 Jan. 2024
• And what of the cardinal sin of Hollywood Week-forgetting the lyrics?
  — Michele Amabile Angermiller, Variety, 28 Mar. 2022
• In some senses, the top of the large cardinal hierarchy is in sight.
  — Dave Linkletter, Popular Mechanics, 22 July 2022
• To begin something, to kindle, is to recognise the cardinal rule of life: Life is change.
  — Gala Mukomolova, refinery29.com, 26 Mar. 2021
• Isn't that the cardinal rule when living with roommates?
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 12 Aug. 2022
• Below, Park shares her cardinal style secrets, from the best cheap thrills to why a button-down—in any way, shape, or form—can’t be beat.
  — Zoe Ruffner, Vogue, 12 Nov. 2021
• For all his faults and all the reasons for his firing, Herman’s cardinal sin was not winning enough.
  — Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 3 Jan. 2021
• Frequent Perusers know that to be the cardinal sin of coaches and their dealings with heathens such as me.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 6 Jan. 2022
• The key to answering that question is to avoid what Samuel refers to as these three cardinal sins of training, and your arms will be popping in no time.
  — Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 14 Oct. 2022
• That is to say, one of the cardinal pieces of beauty guru advice was that drugstore mascara was the gold standard.
  — Annie Goldsmith, Town & Country, 21 Aug. 2021
• The cardinal rule of cooking pasta is: Don’t overcook it!
  — Lisa Zwirn, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Apr. 2023
• The cardinal rule, Bonds said, is to avoid being judgmental.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2021
• On the first day of the retreat, Megan, a cheerful twenty-five-year-old with blue eyes and shoulder-length hair dyed a cardinal red, woke at four o’clock in the morning to the chiming of a bell.
  — David Kortava, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
• The takeaway: Investors seem to keep forgetting a cardinal market rule: Don’t fight the Fed.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 11 Jan. 2023
• The scene involved a character who snitched being hung from a helicopter for the cardinal sin of gang life.
  — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 15 June 2022
• In 2015, after the worst of the fighting in eastern Ukraine ended after a flawed cease-fire deal, the cardinal error of the West was to lose interest.
  — Liana Fix, Foreign Affairs, 12 Sep. 2023
• The rest of the crowd pivoted left on command to recognize each cardinal direction in turn.
  — The Arizona Republic, 31 Jan. 2024
• Liu An also tells of a fifth cardinal direction, the center of the world, represented by the Yellow Dragon.
  — Catherine Duncan, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024