live in sin
Example Sentences
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Aside from loud claims that the law forced Government employes to live in sin; feminists ardently opposed it because 50% of those dismissed on Section 213 were women.
From Time Magazine Archive
Louisiana Democrat Russell Long, floor manager for the tax bill, poked fun at the plan, claimed somewhat irrelevantly that it would help couples who live in sin.
From Time Magazine Archive
She was desirous of improvement, and said, "she would give up all the profits of her barrow, and go into the hardest service, rather than live in sin and ignorance."
From The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales by More, Hannah
But, after all, there are very many more than I have as yet mentioned, who wait for a time of repentance to come while at present they live in sin.
From Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII (of 8) by Newman, John Henry
The tinker angry sat, nor asked the man within; Said, "Emma read her Book, and did not live in sin."
From The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales in Verse Together with Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects by Cowherd, Thomas
