How to Use commandment in a Sentence

commandment

noun

• LaVey had distilled Satanism into nine statements — not commandments (Satan would never tell you what to do).
  — Alex Bhattacharji, Rolling Stone, 4 Aug. 2024
• On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
  — Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 June 2018
• Still, the TDE commandments are still law, and the rules have reappeared unchanged.
  — Brian Josephs, Billboard, 7 June 2017
• Vaclav Smil put this point in his usual pithy way in the form of a commandment.
  — Jemma Green, Forbes, 19 May 2021
• One of them said, the sixth commandment is, thou shalt not admit adultery.
  — Harry Bruinius, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 July 2018
• Like Moses receiving the tablets, Mr. Sand took this commandment to heart.
  — William Grimes, New York Times, 12 May 2017
• The commandments have a way of popping up in peculiar places.
  — Ruth Graham, Slate Magazine, 15 May 2017
• Some believe that pomegranates have exactly 613 seeds, the number of commandments in the Torah.
  — Todd A. Price, NOLA.com, 16 Aug. 2017
• Reform Jews follow the values and ethics found in Scripture but not the commandments.
  — Jessica Boehm, azcentral, 23 Mar. 2018
• Toward the end of his life, Jesus was challenged by a Pharisee, in Jerusalem, to name the greatest commandment.
  — Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2020
• Here are three commandments that cross over all types of weight-loss approaches.
  — Samantha Cassetty, NBC News, 5 Mar. 2018
• How the Gospels outline the greatest commandment, which is to love your neighbor as yourself.
  — Dan Zak, Washington Post, 15 July 2019
• To think that those in power in the hierarchy of the church who preach these vows and the 10 commandments knew this was going on and didn’t protect us.
  — Elise Schmelzer, The Denver Post, 25 Oct. 2019
• So now Trump, a man who has broken every commandment countless times, is the arbiter of who is a good Jew.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2024
• For those who know Sikhs and their commitment and commandment to service, this was not a surprise.
  — Manpreet K. Singh, Houston Chronicle, 8 Apr. 2018
• Thus, the biblical lawgiver made sure that no Jew would ever get a perfect 10 in the test of the commandments.
  — Joseph Berger, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2023
• One of the two great commandments Jesus cited is to love our neighbors as ourselves.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 7 June 2019
• Instead, the commandments express what God feels is best for His people.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 19 Aug. 2019
• In order to complete this commandment, the scribe will leave the last few lines of the new Torah unfinished, stenciling in where the letters will be placed.
  — Jamie Swinnerton, Houston Chronicle, 29 Aug. 2019
• Khan declares in her first commandment, speaking with icy cool atop a frigid dub-reggae groove.
  — Kenneth Partridge, Billboard, 22 Jan. 2019
• The scriptures speak a lot about the importance of the Sabbath day, the promises to those who obey that commandment are real and powerful.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Sep. 2021
• Here are all 11 the commandments that HuggieBot 3.0 follows: A hugging robot shall be soft.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Mar. 2022
• Following their arrival at Mount Sinai, God gave Moses the 10 commandments tablets.
  — Alesandra Dubin, Good Housekeeping, 22 Aug. 2023
• Studying the Hebrew scriptures, or Torah, is a commandment and a duty in Judaism.
  — Joyce Dalsheim, The Conversation, 27 Apr. 2020
• Those most adamantly in the pro-life camp stand foursquare upon this commandment in support of their position.
  — Robert Moore, Arkansas Online, 11 Oct. 2020
• In my opinion, Donald Trump lives a life of loving and helping others as Jesus taught in the great commandment.
  — Robert P. Jones, The Atlantic, 4 July 2017
• The Switch Lite once again reinforces one of the core commandments of great gadget design: Simpler is better.
  — Alexander George, Popular Mechanics, 2 Oct. 2019
• There’s a Biblical commandment, Exodus 12:15, to rid your home of bread for Passover.
  — Molly Crabapple, The New York Review of Books, 7 Apr. 2020
• The same can’t be said for that state that doesn’t merit the name Israel, that trades on the history of the Jewish people but won’t honor its values or commandments.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 12 Apr. 2024
• Of all the beauty commandments, wiping off your makeup before going to bed is one of the most important.
  — Audrey Noble, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Jan. 2019

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024