How to Use Mennonite in a Sentence

Mennonite

noun
  • But Pascal buys his produce, some meats and cheeses from local farmers, many of them Amish and Mennonite.
    — Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 2024-08-10
  • Sick families, mostly Mennonite, sit in a makeshift waiting room on the far left, and Dr. Ben Edwards is at a table on the far right.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 2025-03-10
  • The vaccine skeptics of Gaines County aren’t only found in the Mennonite community.
    — Nick Watt, CNN, 2025-03-06
  • The ripple began when my father’s older, married siblings joined a Mennonite congregation.
    — Rachel Yoder, Harper's Magazine, 2023-06-09
  • The start of the outbreak was linked to a Mennonite community of the South Plains region of Texas among whom vaccination rates are low.
    — Joseph Choi, The Hill, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Other groups, including Mennonite Action have organized regular protests against the war on Capitol Hill.
    — Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, 2024-05-26
  • At first, the outbreak centered in the region’s Mennonite community, which had been under-vaccinated with entire families infected.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 2025-03-06
  • In 2010, about one-fifth of the county's residents were believed to be part of the Mennonite faith, according to the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal.
    — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 2025-03-03
  • Much of the money goes into building materials, which volunteer laborers from Mennonite Disaster Service use to build new houses and other groups put into repairs.
    — Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 2023-07-30
  • Mews said public health nurses visit more than 60 Amish and Mennonite schools annually to collect immunization data and encourage vaccination.
    — Madeline Heim, jsonline.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Mobile clinic boom Evangelical purchased its mobile clinic in 2018 using a mix of philanthropic grants and money from local businesses and the Amish and Mennonite community.
    — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 2024-01-01
  • In another book, Miriam Toews’s novel Women Talking, which is based on a true story, a group of Mennonite women debates whether to flee their isolated community—or stay and fight—after a group of men are caught drugging and raping them.
    — Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Buildup of natural immunity When the first measles cases were confirmed in western Texas, health officials said the infections primarily affected insular communities, such as the Mennonite community.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 2025-05-27
  • The outbreak began in undervaccinated Mennonite communities in Gaines County, and was later linked to measles cases in other states, including New Mexico and Kansas.
    — Chantelle Lee, Time, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Jobs in agriculture regularly bring in migrant workers, and James Madison University and Eastern Mennonite University attract a diverse population of academics.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Most of the cases are connected to an outbreak that began in a Mennonite community in West Texas and spread to New Mexico, Oklahoma and Kansas, The New York Times reported.
    — Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 5 Aug. 2025

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