How to Use secular in a Sentence

secular

1 of 2 adjective

• Both secular and religious institutions can apply for the funds.
• The secular schools don't even put the questions on the table.
  — Freep.com, 8 Oct. 2021
• The 1987 crash was in the midst of a massive secular bill market.
  — Joseph N. Distefano, Philly.com, 3 Nov. 2017
• There are some secular longer-term trends that could help the stock, as well.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
• The colony’s bishop, Peters, hopes to hide all this from the secular world.
  — Sarah Jones, The New Republic, 26 June 2019
• New York is a city of secular churches—and for three months the pews have been empty.
  — Elias Williams, National Geographic, 15 June 2020
• Takhween is the secular version of that: to declare someone a traitor (kha’in) to the nation.
  — Sam Sweeney, National Review, 6 Sep. 2020
• More than half of these funds went to secular non-profits here in San Diego.
  — Lisa Deaderick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 June 2017
• Way too much twang for my taste in both the sacred and secular carols.
  — Luis Melgar, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023
• All that adds up to something that feels like secular gospel, complete with the stomps.
  — Allison P. Davis, The Cut, 22 June 2018
• The Manet exists in a separate universe — the universe of the secular, the arts, the modern.
  — Vulture, 26 Sep. 2023
• Here are the details of sacred and secular objects at the center of the royal event.
  — Elise Brisco, USA TODAY, 3 May 2023
• The line between the secular and the sacred in France is a constant source of contest and conflict.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• This is a problem in the eyes of a certain sort of secular liberal.
  — Timothy P. Carney, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
• As the nation as a whole became more secular, the Christian right grew in strength and in numbers.
  — Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2020
• But the song was a hit across the board, and received airplay on secular radio stations as well.
  — Brooklyn White, Essence, 14 Apr. 2020
• Stressing the secular change in the business is likely to carry weight on Wall Street.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Jan. 2023
• Iceland is one of the most secular nations in the world, but there is no separation of church and state.
  — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2017
• We weren’t allowed to go to movies, listen to secular music, or watch TV.
  — Aaron Hartzler, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2018
• The market does not have a good record of crossing the fault line between secular tech and cyclical themes smoothly.
  — Oliver Renick, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2021
• This is true both for more secular and more religious Jews.
  — Randall P. Lieberman, Jewish Journal, 17 Aug. 2017
• And in this case, Hybel said, Fitzgerald's work was secular.
  — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 5 June 2023
• In part the response has pitted a religious right against a more secular left.
  — Dina Kraft, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Mar. 2022
• Elsewhere in the movement, there was open talk of moving past him for more secular reasons.
  — New York Times, 19 July 2022
• Khalid’s father was secular, which was unusual for an Iraqi at the time.
  — WIRED, 5 Jan. 2023
• But the city banned its appearance, saying no non-secular flags could be flown.
  — Fox News, 16 July 2019
• In it, the artist deals with the profoundly secular world in which cheats prevail over innocence.
  — Dallas News, 21 June 2019
• The outright pushiness of it all has cheapened secular Christmas in my mind.
  — Donna Vickroy, Daily Southtown, 8 Sep. 2017
• In a secular, capitalist world, this psychiatric framework is the most effective form of social control.
  — David Peisner, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2024
• Protests near the Egyptian border to halt aid delivery into Gaza were first organized by religious Zionists, but now draw secular participants.
  — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024

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secular

2 of 2 noun

• And when the gates opened to the public in the late afternoon, the line was a mix of the religious and the secular, Jews and Arabs.
  — New York Times, 25 Dec. 2021
• Both men, who were about the same age, had grown up as working-class secular Jews in New York.
  — Clay Risen, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2022
• Each piece explores an aspect of love from the religious to the secular.
  — oregonlive, 22 Mar. 2021
• During the next six months, MacAskill and Ord enjoined their friends and other moral philosophers to pledge a secular tithe.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022
• There can be no separation of the secular and the sacred.
  — Harrison Smith, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2022
• And so the category of the secular is viewed with great suspicion these days.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2022
• Mixed feelings about the sacred and the secular are hardly unique to this musician.
  — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 May 2022
• Global trade and shipping are part of a long-term secular story, at the center of which is the global middle class.
  — Frank Holmes, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021
• If not, China will struggle to avoid a secular, rather than a cyclical, downturn in growth this decade.
  — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 31 Dec. 2021
• Over the years, Robinson has expanded his live and recorded repertoire to include the secular along with the sacred.
  — Chris Riemenschneider, Star Tribune, 27 Feb. 2021
• Gilbert presents us with a sharp distinction between the religious and the secular in the United States today.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Sep. 2022
• The conversation Raphael creates across the room bridges the two worlds of the sacred and the secular, part of the larger effort advanced by Julius’s papacy.
  — Cammy Brothers, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2021
• At that time, the secular was much more elevated, and was much more prominent.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2022
• So how does McBride see himself and his old musical pals Stephens and Yates in this explosion of ideas that connect the dots between the sacred and the secular in a fresh way?
  — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 22 June 2022
• Michel Leiris, who as a young man was friends with him, pointed out in an introduction to The Dice Cup that the title itself has both a secular and a sacred aspect.
  — Jed Perl, The New York Review of Books, 25 Feb. 2021
• That’s enough for a pair of elementary schools, one religious, the other secular.
  — Washington Post, 5 June 2021
• Although white nationalism, draped in Christian symbolism, is a problem, the much greater threat comes from the secular Left.
  — Joseph Loconte, National Review, 30 May 2021
• Smith Pegues is known for impacting the lives of both secular and faith-based audiences and demographics.
  — Lynnette Nicholas, Essence, 26 July 2022
• This included not only the Gulf monarchies but the secular (albeit brutal) regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
  — Michael Lynch, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
• At various intervals throughout his career, Kanye has tried (and, for the most part, failed) to reconcile the secular and the sanctified.
  — Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2021
• In the secular, bottom-line world Byrne inhabits, patience is in short supply and results are demanded.
  — Rainer Sabin, AL.com, 18 May 2017
• As a result, 12 out of 13 of West’s nominations come in Christian or gospel categories, with the lone secular outlier for Ye being a nod for top rap album.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 8 Apr. 2022
• During the Easter weekend, Vice travels between two worlds, one deeply religious, the other secular.
  — oregonlive, 15 Apr. 2022
• There are small touches played almost as throwaways that solidify the balance between the sacred and the secular — the band members on prayer rugs after a practice session, for instance.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 3 June 2021
• And each ended in deadlock, with both Netanyahu’s supporters as well as his secular, Arab and dovish opponents falling short of a majority.
  — Time, 3 June 2021
• Encounters between the ultra-Orthodox and the secular have reached new heights during the coronavirus pandemic.
  — Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2022
• Locke’s modern interpreters — from both the secular left and the religious right — often appear ignorant of his scriptural references.
  — Joseph Loconte, National Review, 4 July 2021
• Both confronted the traditional divide between the secular and the sacred in African-American culture.
  — John Edward Hasse, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2021
• In making this fund investment, we were excited by the velocity in their television and film business, the strong management team and the massive secular tailwinds driving the industry.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Jan. 2022
• That Rushdie was raised a Muslim, albeit a secular, alcohol-loving Muslim who soon would declare his atheism, made his descriptions of the Prophet even more troubling than if some outsider had ignorantly portrayed the same.
  — Siva Vaidhyanathan, The New Republic, 16 Aug. 2022

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