Example Sentences

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I think Roethke was a spiritual poet but he wasn’t orthodoxly religious.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 20, 2019

I’ve met some amazingly wonderful people who are atheists, and I’ve met some amazingly wonderful people who are orthodoxly faithful.

From Washington Post • May 1, 2015

But no miniature in enamel is this orthodoxly lengthy, appendixed, annotated biography of Byron.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I am glad to see," said Captain Hatton, "that though this is a monastic house, and this a fast day, we shall not have to dine orthodoxly, on bacalhao and sardinhas."

From The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters by Bowen, Sue Petigru

He was a naturally religious man, if not an orthodoxly religious one.

From The Devil's Garden by Maxwell, W. B.