Example Sentences

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Le Corbusier, who could be described as a nonbelieving Protestant, had one religion, which was architecture.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

Instead of arguing that the Pledge violates the First Amendment’s establishment clause, they have started arguing that it violates the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal-protection clause, because it presents an occasion for nonbelieving children to be ostracized.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 22, 2018

An urbane and nonbelieving Jew, like Freud, Dr. Gay found in him not only a compelling life and body of work, but an approach to history.

From Washington Post • May 12, 2015

Mr. Bulos fulminates amusingly as the cantankerous Bill, whose rock-solid Maronite faith is both a source of exasperation and, oddly, succor to his nonbelieving nephews.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2011

The real problem is I don’t think a photo of a church taken by my nonbelieving ass is the best last thing to leave behind for my seventy followers.

From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera