RENEGADE in a Sentence

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The pursuit of purity involved vicious factional fights as real Marxists drove out renegades, revisionists and heretics.

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 Meanings and Examples of RENEGADE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
renegade
 n.  disloyal person; traitor or rebel
Classic Sentence:
1  These women, so swift to kindness, so tender to the sorrowing, so untiring in times of stress, could be as implacable as furies to any renegade who broke one small law of their unwritten code.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
2  I will defend my church and my religion when it is insulted and spit on by renegade catholics.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
3  "Vereshchagin is a renegade and a traitor who will be punished as he deserves," said he with the vindictive heat with which people speak when recalling an insult.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XI
4  I love you, Scarlett, because we are so much alike, renegades, both of us, dear, and selfish rascals.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
Example Sentence:
1  Because he had abandoned his post and joined forces with the Indians, his fellow officers considered the hero of Dances with Wolves a renegade.
2  If the renegade clique of that country were in power , it would have meant serious disaster for the people.
3  The pursuit of purity involved vicious factional fights as real Marxists drove out renegades, revisionists and heretics.