How to Use infidel in a Sentence

infidel

noun
  • This is what is waiting for them in the world, these infidels in the trenches were killed one by one fleeing their homes.
    — Seamus Hughes, The Atlantic, 25 May 2017
  • My mom was also happy to shed her role as neighborhood infidel.
    — Sara Eckel, Longreads, 1 June 2018
  • Crowds of armed men thronged the streets in several Syrian cities, chanting for the blood of infidels.
    — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 14 May 2025
  • After years of abuse, some have embraced Islam and denounced their own people as infidels.
    — Isabel Coles and, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2018
  • Their infidels are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates of Baghdad.
    — Leander Kahney, WIRED, 14 Apr. 2003
  • The infidels’ free speech or their indoor plumbing and electricity?
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 15 Mar. 2025
  • In Arabic the word kafir or kaffir has been used to refer to infidels, or non-believers in Islam.
    — Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 June 2026
  • Your safety, your obligation to true Muslims, is to join the camp of Islam, the caliphate, and take up arms against the infidels.
    — Kurt Eichenwald, Newsweek, 27 Feb. 2017
  • Oh God, reward the fighters hitting the infidels and defectors.
    — Jennifer Williams, Vox, 1 Aug. 2019
  • But the belief is part of the reason that the Druze have been branded by Islamic militants as infidels.
    — Jane Arraf, NPR, 6 May 2025
  • Some Muslim men believe that the reward for killing infidels is 72 virgins in the afterlife.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Aug. 2025
  • Over what — infidels, gays, society’s failure to grant him proper deference, all of it — remains unclear.
    — Dan Barry, Serge F. Kovaleski, Alan Blinder and Mujib Mashal, New York Times, 18 June 2016
  • To his kidnappers, Pearl was not a messenger to the outside world, but a scapegoat to be sacrificed for the sins of his fellow infidels.
    — Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic, 16 Nov. 2014
  • Some of their treasured possessions—bicycles, snowboards, trophies—would identify them as infidels and put their lives in danger.
    — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Sunni extremists consider non-Muslims infidels who deserve to be killed.
    — Washington Post, 5 May 2018
  • Sunni extremists consider non-Muslims infidels who deserve to be killed.
    — Ali Abdul-Hassan and Sinan Salaheddin, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 May 2018
  • Kazan was, as the narrative goes, the latest home of the infidels who had been persecuting Russian Christians for centuries.
    — Sophie Pinkham, New Republic, 26 Sep. 2017
  • In 1139, the Church condemned the use of crossbows against Christian enemies, though they could still be used against infidels.
    — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2017
  • The video reportedly shows three masked men – with one accusing the Maldives of being run by infidels and threatening follow-up attacks.
    — Greg Norman | Fox News, Fox News, 6 Feb. 2020
  • The rhetoric of declaring others infidels, marginalization, and violence continues.
    — Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Some, steeped in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, even viewed Israel as an infidel transgressor.
    — Suzanne Maloney, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Although the campaign organizers stressed that the marches would be peaceful, some Gazan social media users called to fight the ‘infidels’ in these communities and to murder them.
    — Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 15 Oct. 2023
  • During the Crusades, the Inquisition, and countless pogroms, Jews were demonized as infidels who refused to abandon their faith, even under threat of death.
    — Avi Weiss, New York Daily News, 10 Aug. 2025
  • This is the secular equivalent of the absolute divide between believers and infidels that allowed Hamas to massacre Jews without restraint.
    — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 21 Oct. 2023
  • The ideology of the groups appears to categorize anyone not subscribing to their extremist views as infidels, whether Muslims or Christians.
    — Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The group follows an extreme interpretation of Sunni Islam and considers Shiites to be infidels.
    — Arkansas Online, 27 Dec. 2025
  • The video reportedly features a masked man flanked by two others wagging his finger at the camera and saying that the Maldives, an island nation in the Indian Ocean, is run by infidels.
    — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Many of Hazimi’s former followers, for instance, have declared him and his followers infidels and now adhere to the teachings of a figure named Hilmi Hashimi.
    — Vera Mironova, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2017
  • Sunni imams issued fatwas, legal condemnations by Islamic religious leaders, against us infidels.
    — Literary Hub, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Even there, respect is hard to find, with wedding guests whispering behind the musicians’ backs, accusing them of being pimps and infidels because over the years of war people started believing music is prohibited in Islam.
    — Maija Liuhto, Longreads, 28 June 2018

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