baptized

Example Sentences

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He was baptized at the school, and it inspired his father to get baptized.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 28, 2026

Saint Augustine and the Dominican friar who baptized me.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

Sunday, the NBC play-by-play announcer will be baptized by fire.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2026

He knows the rules better than most baptized Catholics.

From Salon • May 23, 2025

In less than twelve years they baptized with the name Aureliano and the last name of the mother all the sons that the colonel had implanted up and down his theater of war: seventeen.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez