How to Use communion in a Sentence

communion

noun
  • She went to the front of the church for Communion.
  • Mom was a brilliant woman whose serenity flowed from her quiet communion with the saints.
    Richard Brady, National Review, 31 Aug. 2019
  • The environment and the clothes are in communion with each other, Solis says.
    Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2024
  • In addition to this pop-culture communion, thoughts turn to the very nature of modern celebrity status.
    Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Every day, Perry would spend an hour in silent communion with a single object in the museum’s galleries.
    BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2019
  • Priests and other church officials also are being asked to wash their hands before and after distributing communion.
    USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2020
  • The breadth of articles here hints at the diversity of living arrangements that all have one thing in common: people’s desire to live their ideals, in communion with others.
    Christine Ro, Longreads, 17 Sep. 2024
  • By the time the man approached a communion server and pulled out a shotgun, Wilson and another security volunteer were already reaching for their own guns.
    Jamie Stengle, Twin Cities, 30 Dec. 2019
  • The church has for about 15 years had the grapes bottled for communion wine.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Sharing communion is, even more than in the old days, a leap of faith.
    Editorial Board Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 16 Oct. 2020
  • The glossy leaves catch the light, and suddenly, the wearer is in communion with the world around them.
    Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2023
  • Indeed, the old abbey has long served as a place of communion.
    Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Apr. 2022
  • The wheat was grown to provide flour for communion wafers.
    Jonmaesha Beltran, The Arizona Republic, 7 July 2022
  • But with the passage of time and the communion of close friends, pleasure can and will return.
    Rachel Zarrow, Bon Appétit, 14 Apr. 2021
  • The priest led Mass unmasked, but donned one to give communion.
    Nora Mishanec, SFChronicle.com, 30 Sep. 2020
  • The head of a Catholic school learns that a student had been drinking communion wine.
    Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 12 Nov. 2021
  • The idea is that humans used to use pumpkins for Halloween, a time of communion with the dead.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2021
  • And with a lot of actors, for they, too, are eager for that kind of communion.
    Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The Aztec’s communion was a stew of human flesh and squash blossoms.
    Sam Kriss, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The Aztec’s communion was a stew of human flesh and squash blossoms.
    Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
  • In that case, those exposed should not eat or drink as part of communion.
    Emily Bamforth, cleveland, 3 Mar. 2020
  • The grand reverie of trans-faith communion was no more, and religion now seemed to bring the sword more than peace.
    Matthew Sitman, The New Republic, 15 Apr. 2021
  • The bishops didn’t call for all Catholics who share Biden’s views to be denied communion.
    Patrick Whelan, The New Republic, 21 June 2021
  • An urban legend about a girl in a communion dress brought to the big screen in this revenge thriller.
    Emilio Mayorga, Variety, 11 Feb. 2022
  • To join the crowds and gently spread black oil on a stranger’s cheek — these moments of communion are the ethos of Carnival.
    Kristin Braswell, Travel + Leisure, 10 Feb. 2024
  • The loaf of communion bread, broken into pieces and served on trays, was enough to suffice.
    Greg Garrison | , al, 7 May 2023
  • There was a photo of one of the young girls who’d attended her first communion.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 June 2022
  • The crowd was such a surprise that there were not enough communion cups to serve grape juice to all those in attendance.
    Greg Garrison | , al, 7 May 2023
  • When our hands were too grubby to accept a stick of gum, Eva went around and placed a piece in each of our mouths like a communion wafer.
    Sonya Bennett-Brandt, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2022
  • And one of the last people that came up for communion was Marty Sinclair.
    Chicago Tribune, 13 Oct. 2022

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