How to Use mortal sin in a Sentence

mortal sin

noun

• At this point, the crowd committed a mortal sin in the state of Indiana.
  — Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Sep. 2022
• But more telling is that social media lights the fuse to the mortal sin of comparison.
  — Steve Straessle, Arkansas Online, 15 May 2021
• Still, to hold this movie up as any kind of mortal sin against filmmaking is both silly and unfair.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 1 Oct. 2022
• And in Obamaworld, straying outside your lane was a mortal sin.
  — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 29 Sep. 2017
• If giving Pittsburgh power plays is mortal sin No. 1, giving them open ice with 4-on-4s is a close second.
  — Ed Barkowitz, Philly.com, 15 Apr. 2018
• As long as owners aren’t dumb enough to repeat their mortal sin of collusion, players are getting squeezed by a new world order.
  — Tom Verducci, SI.com, 2 Feb. 2018
• The 13-year-old Lizzie learns how to navigate middle school, from begging her parents for a bra to trying to avoid the mortal sin of being — gasp! — an outfit repeater.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 10 May 2021
• The house's floor plan in the film is clearly an octagon: assuming one side for the front entry way, there would be seven rooms on the ground floor, each one corresponding to Catholicism's mortal sins.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 15 Sep. 2017
• Staying home from Sunday Mass under these circumstances is not a mortal sin, the archdiocese said.
  — Peggy O’Hare, ExpressNews.com, 13 Mar. 2020
• As a child, McHale was taught that the Catholic Church considered homosexuality a mortal sin.
  — USA Today, 12 Nov. 2019
• In these circumstances, personal device/account use is a venal rather than mortal sin.
  — Andy Wright, Slate Magazine, 10 Oct. 2017
• During La Russa’s managerial heyday, swinging at a 3-0 pitch in a rout was considered a mortal sin.
  — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 19 May 2021
• Leaving your children is only a mortal sin, apparently, when women do it.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 25 Jan. 2022
• Faster delivery has a way of making the rest of life seem irritatingly slow and, in America, that practically constitutes a mortal sin.
  — Adam Chandler, The Atlantic, 31 May 2022
• So far from being an absolute moral imperative, voting was proscribed in Italy under pain of mortal sin as recently as a century ago.
  — Matthew Walther, TheWeek, 16 Aug. 2020
• The characters’ stories intersect, but each is seeking redemption for a different all-consuming regret, while trying to survive a world where regret is a mortal sin.
  — Adi Robertson, The Verge, 10 Aug. 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024