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.

Yet their admiration for Patton is undiminished by his paganish conviction that he was the reincarnation of Hannibal of Carthage.

From Slate • Dec. 17, 2015

To this paganish priest comes young Soldier Pedro, with his belly full of fighting but sadly in need of food and drink.

From Time Magazine Archive

With Twelfth-tide this fair vision suffers a metamorphosis, blazoning out into the paganish saturnalia of bonfires, which in Calvados is transferred from St. John's Eve le jour des Rois.

From Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries by Dawson, William Francis

It was a wizened little paganish face, with sharp-cut features and a bald head.

From The Lost Stradivarius by Falkner, John Meade

There is a trout in a well on the border of Lough Gill, Sligo, that some paganish person put once on the gridiron.

From Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)