Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

The only object of Persian art at all familiar to average occidentals is the famed throne upon which sit Persia's Shahs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Simple as these tales, their presentation is made to seem curious to occidentals by the antique conventions of Chinese drama.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nathalie Haldin surprised me by saying, as if she had thought very much on the subject, that the occidentals did not understand the situation.

From Under Western Eyes by Conrad, Joseph

From the outer standpoint such meetings are inconceivable, for we are orientals whereas you are occidentals.

From The Promulgation of Universal Peace by `Abdu'l-Bahá

And it will seem rather a fever in the light of universal history, this hot subjective meaningfulness of everything we modern occidentals value.

From Colors of Life Poems and Songs and Sonnets by Eastman, Max