How to Use confession in a Sentence

confession

noun

• I haven't gone to confession in three years.
• She went to the police station and made a full confession.
• The priest will hear confessions after mass today.
• I have a confession to make: I have never done this before.
• McAdam ordered that the confession be struck from the record.
  — Vanessa Arredondo, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2023
• Turns out, the 45-year-old had her own confession to make.
  — Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 22 July 2024
• Who could forget the dumpling confession that caused Pat to bolt off the stage?
  — Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 18 May 2022
• The judge ruled Thursday the teen's confession could be used in court.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 21 June 2024
• Send in the best confession—anonymously, of course—and the cash prize was yours.
  — Deborah Cohen, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2022
• The film accused the police of beating a confession out of Crump.
  — Adam Bernstein, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2023
• Daye croons, confession-like, on the almost five-minute-long track.
  — Meagan Jordan, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2021
• That confession was read to each jury and judge who went on to sentence Owens to death.
  — CBS News, 20 Sep. 2024
• In many towns, a shriving bell was rung to call villagers to confession.
  — Grace Linden, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023
• And then of course, there was Greer's dashcam confession.
  — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 11 May 2024
• The documents do not say what the Saudis did to elicit the confessions.
  — Justin Scheck, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2023
• Kim said in confession that the hardest part for Khloé will be losing her best friend.
  — Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 June 2022
• The boys, known as the Central Park Five, were convicted on the grounds of coerced false confessions.
  — Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 5 July 2023
• But days later, Smith's brother made a confession that blew the case wide open.
  — Christina Coulter, Fox News, 5 May 2024
• In the end, the confession was not admissible in court.
  — Christina Dugan Ramirez, PEOPLE.com, 24 Feb. 2022
• Galvin was called into the room and spent the next two hours silently recording Maria’s confession.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2022
• At the time of the confession Whited did not know the date or year of the shooting and police struggled to tie the statement to Dailey’s death.
  — Eric Fleischauer The Decatur Daily, al, 7 July 2022
• Geis told The Star that there are several factors that can lead to a false confession.
  — Katie Moore, Kansas City Star, 19 Apr. 2024
• Loudon’s wife moved out of the couple’s home and cut off contact with him after his confession.
  — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 23 Feb. 2024
• Here's a confession, said Dominic Maxwell in The Times.
  — The Week, theweek, 31 Oct. 2024
• Bieber made the confession to a close friend, who later leaked the information to the Daily Mail.
  — Bayliss Wagner, USA TODAY, 12 July 2022
• But on appeal, a new judge reviewed the confession and said Dugar should be released.
  — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 28 Jan. 2022
• The book opens with the maid being interrogated by the police, and the rest of the story is sort of her confession to them.
  — The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2024
• With news of the confession, Williams felt for the first time since his mom's murder that sense of heaviness soften.
  — Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 8 May 2022
• Another major focus of the trial was Allen's multiple confessions in jail and his mental health at the time.
  — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 20 Dec. 2024
• The team of reporters and visual journalists worked through plenty of logistical hurdles to bring close-to-live updates to readers each day, detailing everything from the heartwrenching witness testimony to details about Allen’s prison confessions.
  — Chris White, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Jan 2025