How to Use Lent in a Sentence

Lent

noun

• The Lent season is coming to a close, which means Easter is just a skip and a hop away.
  — Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 18 Mar. 2024
• For the Vatican, the Lent of 2025 takes place in a desert of uncertainty as the pope’s health hangs in the balance.
  — Christopher Lamb, CNN, 8 Mar. 2025
• For many in New Orleans, spring means Lent and church fish fries: plates of fish, hush puppies, and mac and cheese, picked up on your way home from work.
  — Madeleine Deliee, Southern Living, 19 Mar. 2021
• The boycott is starting on the first day of Lent, and will concurrently last a total of 40 days.
  — Solcyré Burga, TIME, 5 Mar. 2025
• Mother's Day in Britain is celebrated on the fourth Sunday of Lent, which varies from year to year.
  — Jay Stahl, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2024
• Fried fish season has arrived with the beginning of Lent.
  — Joe Guillen, Axios, 5 Mar. 2025
• Today, Mardi Gras is seen as a chance to go all out and party before the solemn period of Lent.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2025
• While Lent is officially over – and there's no need to hide your meat from the Lord above – Rath plans on making maultaschen as a special.
  — Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 2 Apr. 2024
• The exception is Lent when there is carryout each week.
  — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2024
• Easter is a day of celebration, and with Lent over, Christians can eat meat.
  — Marina Johnson, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Mar. 2024
• Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent, a season marked by sacrifice and solemnity.
  — Ruth Graham, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2024
• The Catholic Church in Venezuela bent the rules for the semiaquatic animal, allowing it to be eaten during Lent.
  — Gary Shteyngart, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
• The festival had a Christian tie-in, as a burst of hedonism before the austerity of Lent.
  — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Dec. 2024
• Here’s where to eat in and around Sacramento: Observing Lent in Sacramento area?
  — Kendrick Marshall, Sacramento Bee, 7 Mar. 2025
• In the early days of Lent – the time period of fasting between Ash Wednesday and Easter – meat was given up, as well as dairy products.
  — USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2024
• In the early days of Lent – the time period of fasting between Ash Wednesday and Easter – meat was given up, as well as dairy products.
  — Wyatte Grantham-Philips, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2023
• The practices were somewhat penitential, but not as intense as those of Lent, and the spirit was much more preparation than penance.
  — WSJ, 4 Jan. 2024
• Ingredients like sugar, butter, eggs and yeast are put into the dough before giving them up for Lent.
  — Journal Sentinel, 23 May 2024
• Today, Italians enjoy them as a butter-free treat during Lent or give them to Valentines as a sweet token of their affection.
  — Michelle Tchea, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2025
• The Wilton band has also celebrated the safeguarding of 77 acres of land the tribe reclaimed last month, as well as the acquisition of 30 acres along Lent Ranch and Promenade parkways.
  — Marcus D. Smith, Sacramento Bee, 8 June 2024
• During the Middle Ages, individuals would return home to visit their mother church and their mothers on the fourth Sunday of Lent.
  — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 9 May 2023
• Something about the liturgical season of Lent seems effortful.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 22 Mar. 2024
• During Lent, Simone prepares a weekly fish dinner smothered in a creamy sauce with a distinct hint of nutmeg, at her home in Issy-les-Moulineaux, a suburb southwest of the city.
  — Shane Mitchell, Saveur, 28 Mar. 2024
• This massive catch of fried fish, of course, is designed largely to satisfy the cravings of Catholics who, prior to 1966, abstained from eating red meat every Friday, not just those during Lent.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024
• On Wednesday, Catholics started observing the liturgical season of Lent.
  — William Lambers, Newsweek, 8 Mar. 2025
• The idea for the bill, Stafsholt said, came from business owners in his western Wisconsin district that struggled with worker shortages while serving the state’s famous fish fry dinners during Lent.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 2 May 2023
• One explanation for it is that eggs were formerly forbidden to eat during Lent, so people would paint and decorate them to mark the end of the period and later eat them on Easter.
  — Marina Johnson, The Indianapolis Star, 25 Mar. 2024
• Lauren recommends giving up fancy, creamy coffee drinks for Lent.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 15 Feb. 2024
• Historically, one aspect of the celebrations was that the Lent restrictions on alcohol would be lifted for the day.
  — Marianne Eloise, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2025
• Two of those times are scheduled to coincide with the traditional Italian carnival season—the Sunday and Tuesday before Lent.
  — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Dec. 2024