How to Use missionary in a Sentence

missionary

1 of 2 noun

• My mom was a missionary in our church, and my dad is a deacon.
  — Paul Schrodt, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2022
• That’s what a whole lot of missionary/athletes are dealing with.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Sep. 2022
• Armstong was known to be kind to missionaries.
  — Natalie Davies, Freep.com, 12 Oct. 2025
• Others see a need for a covert way to support missionaries.
  — Bracey Harris, NBC news, 28 Mar. 2026
• My grandmother died the day the missionaries came for our souls.
  — Elisa Gonzalez, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
• Each morning the missionary wonders whether the old man’s latest dream vision will spell the death of him.
  — Justin E. H. Smith, WIRED, 7 Mar. 2023
• Once inside a world, the missionaries split up and seek out small groups chatting in quieter corners.
  — Fiona Murphy, NPR, 2 July 2026
• His father was a minister, and his mother was a missionary who sang with his sisters in a gospel quartet.
  — Terence McArdle, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2022
• Luce, a missionary’s son and classics major at Yale, had studied his Plutarch.
  — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
• The missionary took him in and encouraged him to apply for college in Louisville where his uncle lived.
  — Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 28 Sep. 2025
• The best business owners are missionaries and mercenaries at the very same time.
  — Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
• These young female missionaries, dressed in white, have been sent into Canada to draw girls to Gilead’s cause.
  — Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2026
• Those were the perils of being a missionary and learning another language.
  — Literary Hub, 16 Mar. 2026
• One visiting missionary preached that God wanted our spirits to be free like a butterfly.
  — Literary Hub, 16 Mar. 2026
• Campbell said concerns that missionaries could upend the culture of an online space are common.
  — Fiona Murphy, NPR, 2 July 2026
• After his freshman year at Stanford, Romney spends two years in France as a missionary.
  — CNN, 30 Jan. 2022
• While in Jackson, Owens met a older white missionary who reintroduced Christ to his life.
  — Benjamin Wells, Journal Sentinel, 27 Oct. 2022
• Two pivotal encounters in his life — the mentoring boss and the older missionary — were with people who were not Black.
  — Benjamin Wells, Journal Sentinel, 27 Oct. 2022
• The missionary fled to the city of Ternopil, in western Ukraine, with his wife and son the day after Russia attacked.
  — NBC News, 10 Mar. 2022
• After the revolution, there was an explosion of missionaries from all sects to preach their version.
  — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 11 June 2026
• When the missionary took his picture to a film developer, an employee sent a copy to a newspaper in Bangkok.
  — Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Aug. 2023
• Spanish missionaries planted the first seeds of grape greatness in 1820.
  — Branded Content Contributor, Orange County Register, 8 Jan. 2024
• But the 31-year-old urban missionary was not prepared for the mass email that hit his inbox early Thursday morning.
  — Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 3 Oct. 2022
• Another friend is a missionary from Argentina who has a Christian school in Ukraine.
  — al, 7 Mar. 2022
• Portuguese Jesuit missionaries in Japan in the 1500s wrote about both matcha and chanoyu.
  — Rebecca Corbett, The Conversation, 3 Sep. 2025
• Francis is the first Jesuit pope and is known to have joined the Jesuit order hoping to become a missionary in Japan.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 29 May 2023
• An American missionary was among those who tested positive for the deadly disease.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC news, 19 May 2026
• An American missionary was killed in 2018 after having tried to make contact with the tribe.
  — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC news, 27 Oct. 2025
• The latter spent almost five decades deeply engaged with the church as a priest, a missionary and a cardinal before being elected pontiff in May last year.
  — USA Today, 18 Apr. 2026
• The Christian missionaries were returning from a visit to an orphanage when kidnappers forced their bus to stop.
  — CBS News, 3 Dec. 2025

missionary

2 of 2 adjective

• The youngest hostage seized from the missionary group was an infant.
  — New York Times, 21 Nov. 2021
• Half of the missionary deaths this year have been due to various health ailments.
  — David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 July 2021
• Many Web3 founders approach their work with a missionary-type zeal.
  — Alex Tapscott, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2022
• Those were enormous shoes to fill, and Ritchie didn’t have the missionary zeal to compete.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2021
• The developer had asked a missionary friend to translate the phrase.
  — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2022
• The gang that took the missionary group was also blamed for kidnapping five priests and two nuns earlier this year.
  — Jemima McEvoy, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2021
• Facing the plaza in the historic district is the San José missionary church.
  — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 28 May 2022
• Latter-day Saints are well known for their extensive missionary program around the world.
  — David Campbell, The Conversation, 11 July 2023
• Michael has loved his missionary service and loves the people of Alabama.
  — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 14 Dec. 2021
• Lessons learned from missionary work Smith had another tool to fall back on when times were tougher at Cotopaxi.
  — Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2023
• Not all parishes can afford to pay for a support staff to fully serve the parish and our missionary aspirations.
  — Tim Fang, CBS News, 30 Apr. 2026
• Chuck and his missionary team, in those frantic moments, led children to the safety of the soccer pitch — a refuge of open space away from buildings.
  — Erik Brady, USA TODAY, 7 May 2021
• He was forced to quit his job as a Catholic missionary teacher because of the insecurity.
  — ABC News, 14 Apr. 2026
• Ultimately, the teacher settled on a crew of a teenage girl, a missionary, two cats, and his own dog, Cyclops.
  — Liz Clayton Fuller, Popular Science, 27 Sep. 2023
• That means the consistory is likely to focus on how to make the church more missionary, and more responsive to the needs of the faithful.
  — Anna Matranga, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
• Of the additional schools on the coalition’s list, 105 were run by missionary groups and churches.
  — Dana Hedgpeth and Emmanuel Martinez, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2023
• Groff started at the Postal Service after years of missionary work in Africa and Asia.
  — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 29 June 2023
• As Suzuki trailed Moonies all over Tokyo, his anti-missionary work took on a missionary zeal.
  — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
• Older adults may begin serving in the senior missionary program at age 40 for up to 23 months.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2021
• Someone who shoots enough 3s – Mo, again - for the Mavs to continue their missionary work with the five-out offense.
  — Dallas News, 1 June 2022
• The terms of the contract played out in full force when the couple was carrying out missionary duties in El Salvador.
  — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
• The film expands into a debate on the ethics of missionary Christianity.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
• Elder Uchtdorf will be part of a global missionary training on June 26.
  — David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 May 2021
• The two first met when Perkins visited southern Africa on a missionary trip in 2018.
  — Javonte Anderson, chicagotribune.com, 26 Nov. 2020
• The gang that police believe captured the missionary group is among the country’s most dangerous and one of the first to engage in mass kidnappings.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Oct. 2021
• The family is from Canada, but based in the Cayman Islands for their missionary work.
  — Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 11 Nov. 2025
• Only one of them, a missionary doctor, tested positive for Ebola.
  — Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 29 May 2026
• Will’s missionary work turns the Shakers into a movement and the source of some truly excellent furniture.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 26 Dec. 2025
• The couple married in 1961 and had four sons, building their early family life around missionary work.
  — Gillian Flaccus, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2021
• The unveiling marked the 60th anniversary of missionary work beginning in earnest in the nation.
  — David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 June 2021