How to Use dogmatic in a Sentence

dogmatic

adjective

• She's become so dogmatic lately that arguing with her is pointless.
• Yet Khamenei is too proud, and dogmatic, to flatter Trump.
  — Karim Sadjadpour, Time, 3 Oct. 2019
• In the 2000s, was the West Berlin left really so cold and dogmatic as portrayed here?
  — John Rockwell, New York Times, 2 June 2017
• There’s a cult of dogmatic Dunk fans, snatching up each new Nike release.
  — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 15 Aug. 2022
• New guys kept showing up on the scene, and so many of them were extremely dogmatic about sulfur.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2019
• But Davis isn’t dogmatic: There’s no sulfite litmus test for the Fig & Thistle wine list.
  — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Jan. 2018
• Catholicism is a dogmatic faith, but one that casts a penumbra far beyond its creed and doctrines.
  — James Matthew Wilson, National Review, 16 Apr. 2020
• In 1992 the climate crisis roused me from my dogmatic slumber to create the Church of Euthanasia.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 10 Sep. 2020
• The Weathermen were the most ferocious, dogmatic and reckless of the factions.
  — Todd Gitlin, Smithsonian, 4 May 2017
• The Weathermen were the most ferocious, dogmatic and reckless of the factions.
  — Todd Gitlin, Smithsonian, 4 May 2017
• Not all of us are as dogmatic in our everyday statements as, say, Madeleine Albright.
  — Rory Satran, WSJ, 15 Jan. 2022
• Camp avoids the dogmatic, mystical aspects of the practice.
  — Michelle Williams, Forbes, 16 June 2022
• The players have become more dogmatic, more certain of the righteousness of their approach to the issues, and more dismissive of those who don’t agree with them.
  — Steven Malanga, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2020
• The definition of what is neutral may change based on data and events, and that is welcome modesty from the often dogmatic central bank.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2018
• But others, Hejnol among them, argued that the now-infamous video didn’t signify all that much dogmatic change, and may not be hard to reconcile with what’s long been known.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 18 May 2021
• In the same way, softening the message and using less dogmatic language could be the key to persuading some of the unvaccinated.
  — S. Shyam Sundar, The Conversation, 14 Sep. 2021
• Michael Raver is spirited and direct as Trofimov, the dogmatic student who represents change and the rise of Russia’s middle class.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2023
• Elected to the Senate in 1996, Sessions became known as a dogmatic outlier.
  — Molly Ball, Time, 29 Mar. 2018
• Perhaps its spread has been hampered by the ignorant snobbery of the chili purists, who are in their own way as dogmatic and intolerant as martini snobs.
  — John E. McIntyre, baltimoresun.com, 10 Dec. 2017
• Will Berlin assent to less dogmatic economic policies aimed at bolstering growth and spreading the spoils?
  — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 1 July 2016
• The Fed should be neither hawkish nor dovish, but watch real-time market signals and not follow some predetermined dogmatic path laid out by the Fed staff.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 24 Dec. 2018
• If the free-speech stalwarts worry about the narrowing of debate, then their critics worry about a dogmatic and overzealous kind of broadening.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 10 June 2020
• The British politician has a dogmatic view of social democratic policies and has spent decades in that ideological world.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 9 June 2017
• One thing that came up again and again during my interviews with Netflix execs is that the company does its best not to be dogmatic about the design of its user interface.
  — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 13 May 2021
• At the same time, as Netflix moves into every form of TV imaginable, its dogmatic belief that (almost) all shows must be binged doesn’t always serve viewers well.
  — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2021
• Their father, an oil field geologist, and their stay-at-home mom were both active in the GOP, but talk around the dinner table, mainly about current events, was never dogmatic.
  — Mark Z. Barabak Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2021
• Led by Eliza, the cleverest (and therefore most troublesome) student, the girls are empowered with a newfound sense of agency that quickly puts them at odds with Samuel’s dogmatic spirit and mission for the school.
  — Siobhan Jones, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2020
• His belligerent claims of voter fraud may have further dampened turnout by convincing some of his most dogmatic voters that there was no point in voting in a rigged election.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 6 Jan. 2021
• Using some amorphous, dogmatic plea to Mother Gaea’s climate in order to ban all other persons from consuming it is not among those.
  — Grant Addison, Washington Examiner, 29 Apr. 2021
• The congregation of the church, which is non-dogmatic and attracts liberal worshipers, voted at the end of August to offer sanctuary to those seeking it.
  — Nick Coltrain, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 28 May 2024