sacrament

Example Sentences

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“Twelve Churches” is decidedly not a book about theology: It doesn’t describe debates about the Trinity or what constitutes a sacrament.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

Catholicism also makes a ceremony of transubstantiating flesh into a sacrament to feed the soul.

From Salon • Oct. 4, 2024

Cancro joins her and Eguino in their outdoor living room, where they talk about the next sacrament the family wants to tackle.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2024

Smith, the Supreme Court upheld the firing of two Native American employees who had been denied unemployment benefits after using peyote, a sacrament in their religious ceremonies.

From Slate • Mar. 12, 2024

The father crossed himself, nodded a scared-rabbit kind of thank you, and hurried out to report the sacrament to his wife.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson