fornication

Example Sentences

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He would accuse people of acts such as blasphemy, treachery or fornication.

From BBC

Turns out that abortion rights are very popular, likely due to people's well-documented enthusiasm for fornication without procreation.

From Salon

Erickson knows, as do all Republicans, that fornication is incredibly popular among the American public.

From Salon

In another section, she wrote that Christian leaders struggle with the “same temptations of drugs, alcohol, homosexuality, fornication, adultery, pornography, pedophilia, stealing, lying, envy, covetousness, and every other sin that the congregation struggle with.”

From New York Times

He knows that his lifestyle — “drinking, cursing, fornication,” as he puts it — is out of alignment with the “very legalistic Christianity” he came up in.

From Los Angeles Times