baptized
Example Sentences
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That same sea that baptized me is, for thousands of others, a grave.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
It has also attracted droves of new members, many of whom were baptized in the campus protests the way a previous generation was during the Vietnam War.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Vermeer was born in Delft amid the Wars of Religion and baptized in the Calvinist Reformed Church.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Catholicism is the faith I was baptized in, the one I embraced as a teen and that’s the bedrock for my moral code of comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2025
It was when we were baptized the Freedom Writers; a name that will forever stay with us, as individuals, and as a movement.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
