crucifix
Example Sentences
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The crucifix and Elgin watch conjured Sunday mornings and the quiet pride of women who never stepped outside without dignity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
A relative placed a crucifix on the chest of Alanis García.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 28, 2025
Someone knelt down and clipped a microphone to her lapel, a few inches from the crucifix that dangled from her neck.
From Slate • Jun. 25, 2025
In the shadow of a vast crucifix, labourers and construction workers in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez are building a small city of their own.
From BBC • Jan. 25, 2025
"Please, please, Señorita Sandi, you must release him," Milagros pleaded, taking my drawing off the wall where she'd hung it beside a crucifix.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
