How to Use absolution in a Sentence

absolution

noun

• He asked the priest to give him absolution for his sins.
• And that telling the story is a way to achieve absolution.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 26 June 2022
• There’s the voice of a father in those 2,000 pages, a father who can’t find absolution.
  — Paul Duggan, Washington Post, 1 July 2022
• But in a lot of ways, his book tour seems to be going after absolution rather than Trump.
  — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2018
• Hood gave Hosier absolution for his sins and did not confess to the crime in his final moments.
  — Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 16 June 2024
• At this point, the deed is too old for relevance, but too recent for the type of absolution Colbert sought to grant.
  — Daniel D’addario, Time, 17 Sep. 2017
• While many people go to church and find solace, absolution or inner peace – Pratt went to church and found his wife-to-be.
  — Christian Edwards, CNN, 5 Apr. 2023
• The gift of absolution is given within a tribe, and rarely outside it.
  — Laila Lalami, New York Times, 26 June 2018
• Shrove is the past tense of shrive, which means to gain absolution of sins by confession and repentance.
  — al, 1 Mar. 2022
• Trump's words of support for Ducey weren't an absolution, though.
  — Andrew Oxford, The Arizona Republic, 17 Sep. 2020
• Which means the World Series win, and absolution of all that suffering, will last a lifetime.
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 31 Dec. 2019
• The death of the white man conjures images of Christ’s resurrection and absolution for white sins.
  — Jennifer Percy, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
• But did the White House assist on the document that Trump believes grants him such absolution?
  — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2018
• Klara wants revenge — but a part of her maybe also wants oblivion and absolution.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 12 Mar. 2021
• It’s based on the idea that confession and absolution are key to redemption.
  — Constance Sommer, Discover Magazine, 26 July 2022
• The special thus treats nostalgia as a kind of absolution.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 27 May 2021
• But Trump's own White House has revealed those broad claims of absolution to be disingenuous at best.
  — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2017
• Come for Ray’s journey toward absolution, stay for his epic 36-odyssey across Miami Beach to get that safe back.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 16 May 2023
• The Roys assume themselves to be exempt from the rules; the great comedy of Succession—and the great tragedy—is that nature will allow no such absolution.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2019
• This is a man who only seems fully alive when fists connect with flesh, a brute whose baptism scene feels like a triumph, but whose absolution feels a long way away.
  — Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2020
• But his sense of questing—whether for some kind of spiritual absolution or just for the perfect horn sound—endures.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2021
• The Dodgers granted Bellinger absolution by scoring seven runs in the final three innings.
  — Bill Plunkett, Orange County Register, 5 May 2017
• Sometimes knowing what’s the right thing to do is impossible, and so is absolution.
  — Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Nov. 2023
• Spilling blood can bring no relief, no victory—from it, there can be no escape, no absolution.
  — Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2020
• The defense goes on to quote Kopelman pointing out that the WikiLeaks founder has shown signs of preparing for the end of his life, such as seeking Catholic absolution and creating a will.
  — Andy Greenberg, Wired, 7 Sep. 2020
• As Tsui puts it, the idea that those working in the fashion industry but not producing garments should feel some kind of absolution is equally fraught.
  — Diyora Shadijanova, Vogue, 4 Jan. 2023
• The implications of this type of systemic absolution are heavy.
  — Mimi Madrid, The Denver Post, 27 Mar. 2020
• There’s something to be said, too, for a whistleblower movie that doesn’t swerve directly into simple absolution at the end.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 13 Nov. 2019
• Buckley and Wilkins spent many years brooding over their respective roles in the Smith saga—seeking comfort, if not absolution, from each other.
  — Sam Adler-Bell, The New Republic, 7 Mar. 2022
• Her command pays off in the novel’s latter pages, when the narrator’s pursuit of cleansing, or absolution, leads her to take a path that’s troubling but beautifully off-kilter.
  — Mark Athitakis, Washington Post, 5 July 2024

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024