sin
Example Sentences
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“There’s a Scripture,” he said: “Let him without sin—I forget where it is.”
Miriam is vivacious and energetic but dogged by an unexplained sin from her earlier life—a sin that vests itself in the sinister person of her “model.”
“Before this matter proceeds any further,” Lemuel interrupted, “What is the girl’s sin? What is she required to repent of?”
From Literature
But the focus is on distances—between people, and between the mental compartments in which they file away their sins.
Jayes is also on the parish council "for my sins", he says with a wry smile.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
