commandment

Example Sentences

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Nor is there any commandment to spread the religion over the face of the earth.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025

Some referred to the commandment "thou shalt not kill".

From BBC • May 13, 2025

His crime: taking too seriously the biblical commandment to love thy neighbor and the injunction not to kill.

From New York Times • Jun. 5, 2024

The environmental commandment that asserts that killing trees is wrong has become a harmful truism that disguises the tree’s photosynthetic magic.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2023

It makes me scramble around in my head, trying to imagine my way around his commandment, but I cannot.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black