cardinal

Example Sentences

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The cardinal sin of “The Last Days” is that it doesn’t choose a storyline.

From Los Angeles Times

Before Robby and Al-Hashimi engage in any real ideological tussles, though, she commits the cardinal sin of suggesting they change the trauma center’s nickname to something else.

From Salon

“Nestlé has too often been a college of cardinals.”

From The Wall Street Journal

He was named head of the church in New York by Pope Benedict XVI in 2009, who later made him cardinal.

From BBC

In turning the Trojans into perennial title contenders, Carroll set out to “put a fence” around the Southland, to keep all of its top prospects at home, in cardinal and gold.

From Los Angeles Times