The shibboleth of the modern schools of oratory is, "We grow through expression.
Thus the good of humanity, not the glory of God, was the shibboleth of this rising party.
New Thought is founded on the laws of your own nature, and its shibboleth is, "Know Thyself.
The reference we have given to the comedy of Nat Field, 'Amends for Ladies,' tends to show that the British shibboleth was still regarded as of exotic growth.
Not desiring, however, to turn the tables upon our aspersers, we propose to still further pursue the fortunes of the Britannic shibboleth from when we left it upon the lips of La Pucelle.
It will be perceived that, taking this view of the case, the British shibboleth is rather more of a shibboleth than has previously been supposed.
These belong entirely to capitalist parties with their bosses and their boodle and have no place in a party whose shibboleth is emancipation.
It is the grandest shibboleth that ever inspired men and women to action in this world.
It was to be the Shibboleth of the Republican canvass, and the rank and file in every loyal State were engaged in its presentation and its exposition.
It was a Christian shibboleth peculiarly valuable for securing group cohesion, and for arousing individual staying power in times of persecution.
It seems to have operated precisely as the shibboleth 'traitor' operates on a patriotic crowd in war time, or 'scab' on a labor group.
Progress should ever be the shibboleth of man, but progress and improvement are not always synonyms.
Its shibboleth was the obligation of the Gentiles to observe the Mosaic ceremonial law, the Sabbath, rules about meats, circumcision, as an indispensable condition of salvation.
Lutheran shibboleth solê was constantly recurring, it was simply with the object of thoroughly excluding any claim of merit on man’s part in conversion.
Zwingli’s statement was the shibboleth of the Swiss Reformation, and was adopted also in many of the upland cities.
The shibboleth that Saxham quoted was evidently unfamiliar to the girl.
And this one could write in the accursed shibbolethof England as well as in the Taal.
Most of the tradition books agree in ascribing Central American civilisation to the Toltec nation, and "Toltec" has become the rallying cry, the shibboleth of those who struggle to unravel the past of Central America.
Toltec" has become the password, the shibboleth which admits one to the freemasonry of Mayan archæology.
The shibboleth of liberty, first blown with stirring trumpet tones across the watery moors of Holland by the patriot-poet Vondel, was now repeated in deathless prose at Mecklenburg and Philadelphia.
The crescent array of the rebels may refer to the shibboleth of the water-beggars: "Rather Turk than Papist.
The matter of the oaths, they agreed, it was time enough to dispute about, whenever the shibbolethshould be tendered.
If one begins to argue you are countered by the shibboleth of "mental discipline," which is supposed to be the final word on any topic of controversy.
Education has become the fetish of the day and the shibboleth by which the Philistine is recognized from the chosen people of culture and refinement.
Laudable pus became the shibboleth of surgery for centuries, imposed upon it by the genius of a great man.
He also was summoned to Tankerville, and he was forced to go, although he knew that the Shibboleth would be thrown in his teeth.
To many it has often appeared strange how such an absurd and illogical doctrine could become even the shibboleth of a political party.
How tiresome the shibbolethwhich many clergymen talk in church is!
The sound of fashion's shibboleth The laughing waters drown.
And this led to that shibbolethof the Revolution, "Liberty, Fraternity, Equality.
His cry, "Back to Nature," is still the shibboleth of a great many good men, from Parson Wagner to Theodore Roosevelt.
If "salutary prejudice" is to be the shibboleth of future civilisation, the due upshot will be the attainment of it one day by the now semi-civilised races, and the drowning out of European patriotisms by Mongolian.
It is not because a man accepts a shibboleth that he is narrow and small, but because he fights for it.
In proportion to the unimportance of the shibboleth was tenacity to it,--a mark which has ever characterized narrow and illiberal minds.
Opposition to rule, without the consent of the governed, has been the shibboleth with which liberty has rallied the votaries of constitutional government in all its reforms.
Experience during the period since last it met may have had much to do with silence or brief mention of the heretofore darling shibboleth with which they were wont to inspire the faithful, rally the laggards, or capture converts.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shibboleth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
