DOGMA in a Sentence

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For DOGMA, below is one of 13 sentences:
They had wit; they had silence; their political dogma was suitably impregnated with arrogance; they should have succeeded.

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 Meanings and Examples of DOGMA
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
dogma
 n.  belief; doctrine
Classic Sentence:
1  The hatred of instruction for the children of the people was a dogma.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—A BIT OF HISTORY
2  They had wit; they had silence; their political dogma was suitably impregnated with arrogance; they should have succeeded.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT
3  There is nothing like dogma for bringing forth dreams.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
4  This fanaticism was neither a dogma, nor an idea, nor an art, nor a science; it was a man: Enjolras.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
5  Races which are petrified in dogma or demoralized by lucre are unfit to guide civilization.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...
6  He has preached me as a dogma; to-night he will announce me as a revelation.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5
7  She had a strange religion of transmigration of souls all her own, in which she had firm faith, troubling herself little about the dogmas of the Church.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 8
8  Geniuses in the impenetrable depths of abstraction and pure speculation, situated, so to speak, above all dogmas, propose their ideas to God.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV—WHAT HE THOUGHT
Example Sentence:
1  I choose for my subject faith wrought into life, apart from creed or dogma.
2  The concept that destiny is predetermined is a religious dogma and a philosophical delusion.
3  The newspaper seeks to be independent of political dogma.
4  Celibacy is a discipline, he said; it's not a dogma of the church.
5  People are beginning to question the old dogmas.