How to Use gentile in a Sentence

gentile

1 of 2 noun
  • Jew, gentile, Black man, white.
    — NPR, 15 Oct. 2025
  • When cooked, the flesh is moist, creamy, and has a denser bite than white potatoes, says Gentile.
    — Kirsten Nunez, Martha Stewart, 4 Feb. 2026
  • From there, the beef between the two couples runs the gamut from faux-gentile to downright nasty.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The gentile who lived there now gave him two silver candlesticks wrapped in a napkin.
    — Emily Meg Weinstein, Longreads, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Can the hot rabbi date the pretty gentile and ultimately end up with her?
    — Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Gentile turned down a $10 million reward.
    — Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 22 Mar. 2026
  • In Paul's day, the big divide was Jewish and Gentile.
    — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Only Jews should enjoy full rights, while gentiles should be treated with suspicion.
    — Aluf Benn, Foreign Affairs, 8 June 2016
  • His stately presence and gentile manner was a part of the organization for six decades.
    — Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 9 Apr. 2020
  • Yiddish has the phrase shanda fur die goyim to describe a Jew who misbehaves in places and ways that gentiles can see.
    — Jamie Lauren Keiles, Vox, 5 Dec. 2018
  • There was constant fighting between the gentile and the Jewish children.
    — Linda Chase, Sun Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2024
  • If a film called for a Jewish character, a gentile would almost reflexively get cast in that role.
    — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2021
  • If a film called for a Jewish character, a gentile would almost reflexively get cast in that role.
    — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2023
  • According to Derocha and Gentile, roasting it with the skin retains moisture, keeping the meat juicy.
    — Laura Schober, Health, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The heist investigation may have moved south to Philadelphia, but even in death, Gentile is still in the picture.
    — Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Zico played some good passes, but he was also shackled well by Italy’s legendary man-marker Claudio Gentile.
    — Michael Cox, New York Times, 1 July 2026
  • Brody plays a hot rabbi who falls for Bell’s raunchy gentile podcaster, but their relationship could be doomed by their cultural differences in season two.
    — Tolly Wright, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Netanyahu loves lecturing gentiles in his perfect English, and much of the Israeli public loves these performances.
    — Aluf Benn, Foreign Affairs, 8 June 2016
  • Gentile and the story coaxed from Elene nearly two decades ago remain at the center of the investigation and accounts for much of Kelly’s the book.
    — Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 22 Mar. 2026
  • On its first weekend in business, the clientele included a mix of Jews, gentiles, individuals with special needs and those without special needs.
    — Jeff Rumage, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Dec. 2019
  • Because of Easter, the gentiles, too, could be embraced in a relationship—a covenant—with the one God, which was embodied in righteous living.
    — George Weigel, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Of course, many gentiles also appreciated the yearning-for-a-simpler-time song, which reached deep into American culture in those postwar years.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
  • After finding a new job abroad, Xaver, a gentile, fell in love with Dina, the 17-year-old Catholic-Jewish daughter of his boss.
    — Grace Browne, Wired, 3 Jan. 2022
  • Some compositions had been smuggled to sympathetic gentiles outside the camp; others had been secreted under floorboards and behind walls.
    — Douglas Starr, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Young, old, black, white, Jew, gentile, people from political groups of all stripes, including Trotskyites and other fringe figures as well as more mainstream groups.
    — Randy Dotinga, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Aug. 2017
  • In contemporary times, the Chief Rabbinate in Israel sells the land to a gentile, which allows Jews to continue sowing and planting.
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 3 May 2021
  • In contrast to most overtly Jewish comedy, which usually compares Jews and gentiles, most of his material juxtaposes the frum and not frum.
    — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 13 June 2018
  • For all his hatred of parochial moralizing—a constant theme in his work, whether the preaching came from Jews or gentiles, liberals or conservatives—Roth was himself a kind of moralist.
    — Adam Kirsch, The Atlantic, 23 May 2018
  • This Curb Christmas involves Larry pissing off his wife Cheryl's gentile family, and recruiting actors from a living manger scene to recreate their display on his lawn.
    — Esther Zuckerman, TIME, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Several new billboards on Interstate 84 in Hartford and West Hartford are sending a not-so-gentile reminder that rat poison kills more than just rats.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 2 Mar. 2026

gentile

2 of 2 adjective
  • Here and there it was relieved by the heroic efforts of Lotar, hiding in Prague, and his gentile wife, Zdenka.
    — New York Times, 28 Mar. 2020
  • In his 1945 film, Sinatra came to the defense of a Jewish boy menaced by a gentile mob.
    — Samuel G. Freedman, The Atlantic, 10 July 2023
  • Three of the Comedian Harmonists were Jewish, three were gentile.
    — Dana Bash and Abbie Sharpe, CNN, 15 Apr. 2022
  • In short the Gaon of Vilna is rightly a marginal figure from a gentile perspective, no matter his parochial brilliance.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 29 Jan. 2013
  • Franz, then 7, was put aboard a train bound for Brussels with the family’s gentile housekeeper, Irma Turnsek.
    — Joseph Berger, New York Times, 12 June 2023
  • But even wealthy Jews were fearful of jeopardizing their fragile standing in gentile America.
    — Roger Lowenstein, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2023
  • After the birth, her father, the son of a well-to-do Krakow family that ran a leather business, made arrangements for his infant daughter to be cared for by gentile friends, the Sendlers.
    — Bart Barnes, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2019
  • The diary had been rescued by a gentile friend, who gave it to Otto Frank after he was liberated from Auschwitz and returned to the Netherlands to search for his wife and two daughters.
    — Sandi Dolbee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2022
  • The luxury farm resort was one of the first for Middle Tennessee, beckoning visitors to trade in sleepless and debaucherous nights on Broadway for a more holistic and gentile style of southern living.
    — Jillian Dara, Robb Report, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Apparently tipped off to their presence, the Germans raided the school in 1943 on the Christian feast of Pentecost, when gentile students were likely to be home with their families.
    — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 16 June 2022
  • On her podcast, Sarah Silverman has spoken passionately about how Jewish characters are regularly played by gentile actors, specifically lamenting the lack of meaty roles for women.
    — New York Times, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Harry’s internalized all sorts of ideas about the cutthroat nature of business and has a naked desire to leave behind his Jewish Bronx origins and assimilate into gentile Manhattan, even picking up a showgirl lover along the way.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2023
  • But when its young protagonist, Sammy Fabelman, moves to California in the 1960s, he’s confronted with Aryan boys who mock his religion and with gentile girls intrigued by it.
    — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Hoffman’s Shylock, in a 1989 Broadway production, was a cunning victim, literally spat upon by virtually every gentile character in the play.
    — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022

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