original sin
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
“Parade” understands that America’s original sin — slavery and the economic apparatus that sanctioned the dehumanization of groups deemed as “other” — can’t be divorced from Leo’s story.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2025
This soul-gnawing anxiety is not original sin in the Christian sense, even if it functions in much the same way.
From Salon • May 25, 2025
“The approach was really the original sin of Gascón and the beginning and the end of this administration,” Ehrlich said.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2024
Logically, one has to think so … if one believes that an inanimate object can be imbued with original sin to begin with.
From Slate • Mar. 16, 2024
I knew, as everyone knows, the true but incomplete statement of the problem—that an original sin of the fathers was being visited on the children of succeeding generations.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
