How to Use consecrate in a Sentence

consecrate

verb

• This was a phalanx of protection, a way to consecrate and protect the place he was raised.
  — New York Times, 31 Aug. 2021
• Last Supper in which the bread and wine are consecrated and consumed.
  — Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2020
• An epiclesis is a prayer calling on the Holy Spirit to consecrate the bread and wine used in the Eucharist.
  — al, 7 Aug. 2021
• The result is a testament to the unique and durable power of the movies to elevate — even to consecrate — the human image.
  — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2016
• Pope Francis consecrated both Ukraine and Russia shortly after the start of the war in 2022.
  — Ines De La Cuetara, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2023
• Does Ocean fortify and consecrate his work by refusing to put more of it into the world?
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2023
• But before hymns could be sung, prayers could be said or the bread and wine consecrated, parishioners protested.
  — oregonlive.com, 11 Aug. 2019
• Here are how some local couples grappled with how to consecrate their love in the time of coronavirus.
  — Carolyn Said, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 May 2021
• And yet the movie does appear to consecrate certain human values.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
• The Fourth of July is a holiday consecrated in meat smoke.
  — Emily Dreyfuss, WIRED, 4 July 2018
• All this was meant to consecrate the celebration of Passover.
  — Talia Lavin, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2020
• From that humble beginning arose the first cathedral, consecrated in 1954 as a shrine to the patron saint of local miners, the Virgin of the Rosary of Guasa.
  — Rich Morin, chicagotribune.com, 18 Dec. 2017
• The bread to be consecrated for the Communion of the faithful should be placed on a corporal at the edge of the altar, not directly in front of the priest celebrant.
  — Madeline Mitchell, Cincinnati.com, 8 May 2020
• And of course the spires of Gaudí's Sagrada Família—recently consecrated by the Pope—continue their ascent on the horizon.
  — Andrew Ferren, ELLE Decor, 4 Apr. 2011
• The map is also the first to depict the first synagogue consecrated in North America.
  — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2017
• Kernels were dried, ground, fried, grilled, baked, popped, boiled, consecrated, and hated.
  — Oliver Munday, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2023
• The ground was consecrated with an all-night Maya ceremony, and the anonymous skeletons were interred above where they’d been found.
  — Natalie Keyssar, National Geographic, 19 Dec. 2019
• After serving as a canon in Coventry Cathedral and dean of Liverpool, he was consecrated as the bishop of Durham in 2011.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• As Kuforiji began to consecrate the bread and wine, kneeling cushions creaked as worshippers pulled them down from the pews.
  — oregonlive.com, 11 Aug. 2019
• What is significant is your willingness to consecrate your union with a lie.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2023
• New distilleries have opened, as have bars consecrated to gin.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2019
• He was named bishop for the western province of Pinar del Río in December 1978 and was consecrated the following month.
  — Andrea Rodriguez and Peter Orsi, Washington Post, 26 July 2019
• Along with wooden and bronze vessels, weapons and other objects consecrated to the gods, there was also an edible waxy substance made out of dairy or meat.
  — Christian Als, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
• These are good questions, consistent with the Peace of Westphalia of 1648, which consecrated the sovereignty of nation-states as the basis for diplomacy.
  — Fred Kaplan, Slate Magazine, 19 Sep. 2017
• And a particularly symbolic ritual took place in Jerusalem today as the holy oil that will be used to anoint the new monarch and his queen consort was consecrated.
  — Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 3 Mar. 2023
• Stories about soldiers finding ways to consecrate and celebrate their vows resonated with the team.
  — Bianca Salonga, Forbes, 8 June 2022
• Appeals to scripture become a way to baptize our bigotries and consecrate our callousness.
  — Jonathan L. Walton, Time, 22 June 2018
• There was a thrill in finding that those old American values triumphed last night, on the turf that Dewey and Truman consecrated nearly seventy years ago.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2017
• The museum would help consecrate Kenya’s place as both the ancient cradle of humankind and a leader in current wildlife-conservation efforts.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2022
• But by the year 1139, as more women were joining religious orders, bishops stopped consecrating virgins who weren’t part of those orders.
  — Ann Zaniewski, charlotteobserver, 5 July 2017

Last Updated: 9 May 2024