How to Use communion in a Sentence
communion
noun- She went to the front of the church for Communion.
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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
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Sharing communion is, even more than in the old days, a leap of faith.
—Editorial Board Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 16 Oct. 2020
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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
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Indeed, the old abbey has long served as a place of communion.
—Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Apr. 2022
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The wheat was grown to provide flour for communion wafers.
—Jonmaesha Beltran, The Arizona Republic, 7 July 2022
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But with the passage of time and the communion of close friends, pleasure can and will return.
—Rachel Zarrow, Bon Appétit, 14 Apr. 2021
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Less clear was what their communions would look like in the future.
—John Defore, Billboard, 30 May 2017
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The priest led Mass unmasked, but donned one to give communion.
—Nora Mishanec, SFChronicle.com, 30 Sep. 2020
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The head of a Catholic school learns that a student had been drinking communion wine.
—Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 12 Nov. 2021
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Most Catholic kids get their first communion in the second grade.
—Sara Eckel, Longreads, 1 June 2018
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The idea is that humans used to use pumpkins for Halloween, a time of communion with the dead.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2021
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And with a lot of actors, for they, too, are eager for that kind of communion.
—Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Nov. 2022
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The Aztec’s communion was a stew of human flesh and squash blossoms.
—Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
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The Aztec’s communion was a stew of human flesh and squash blossoms.
—Sam Kriss, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
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In that case, those exposed should not eat or drink as part of communion.
—Emily Bamforth, cleveland, 3 Mar. 2020
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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
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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
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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
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Many mecha movies and series have imagined a communion of the human and the machine.
—Maya Phillips, The New Yorker, 21 June 2019
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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
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The loaf of communion bread, broken into pieces and served on trays, was enough to suffice.
—Greg Garrison | , al, 7 May 2023
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There was a photo of one of the young girls who’d attended her first communion.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 June 2022
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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
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After the Catholic chaplain was killed, the Protestant had to give communion.
—Esquire, 24 June 2016
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Macron, in line with France's strict division of state and church, did not take communion.
—Thomas Adamson and Sylvie Corbet The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 9 Dec. 2024
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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
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The only choral music came at communion when the priest hit the play button on a small boombox.
—Rick Rojas, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2017
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Shankman writes that another way of interpreting this is that communion with the divine takes second place to communion with the stranger.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 22 Nov. 2024
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Ramps and baptismal font: To accommodate people who have trouble taking the steps up to the altar, the plan is to disassemble two communion rails — on the right and left sides of the altar — and use the marble to create two ramps.
—Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 26 Nov. 2024
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