How to Use sacrament in a Sentence

sacrament

noun

• They stood in line to receive the Sacrament.
• As the good folk in the land of the sacrament have said for lo these many years: light the freakin’ beam.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Apr. 2023
• The angel who taught church founder Joseph Smith about the sacrament.
  — David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Apr. 2021
• The sacrament is a means to our true end, which is union with Christ and, therefore, union with God.
  — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 7 Apr. 2020
• The idea that current law is sacrament ignores the fact that Congress changes the law all the time.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2019
• The 7 Swans A-swimming are the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, the seven sacraments.
  — Katie Bourque, Good Housekeeping, 30 Sep. 2019
• The floor of the small room where Mr. Karcher keeps chalices and the sacrament was rocking like a water bed.
  — New York Times, 22 Feb. 2021
• There are menorahs now on the edges of the inlet where a priest would prepare a sacrament.
  — Anna Deforest, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
• In the end, helping her mother end her life felt like a sacrament.
  — Tara Bahrampour, Twin Cities, 4 Nov. 2019
• Don’t lead with anything that sounds like a preachy sacrament meeting talk.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 June 2022
• Some leaders in the church believe that Biden should not be allowed to receive the sacrament, which is central to the Catholic faith.
  — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 14 June 2021
• Being able to watch sacrament meetings from home is new.
  — David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Sep. 2020
• The mistake goes beyond baptism, the first Catholic sacrament.
  — Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2022
• In the Catholic faith, the last rites are a sacrament preparing a person to enter heaven.
  — Star Tribune, 5 Dec. 2020
• The school was also barred from celebrating Mass and the sacraments.
  — Deanna Pan, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023
• Through a friend, my mom got a meeting with a priest, who handed her a stack of paperwork to homeschool me on the sacrament.
  — Sara Eckel, Longreads, 1 June 2018
• The ‘waters of baptism’ is the first sacrament that initiates someone into the life of Christ.
  — Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 12 Mar. 2023
• Archbishop Cordileone isn’t the first American prelate to bar a Catholic politician from the sacrament.
  — J.d. Flynn, WSJ, 22 May 2022
• Benedict received the sacrament of the anointing of the sick on Wednesday after his daily Mass, Bruni said.
  — Chris Quintana, USA TODAY, 31 Dec. 2022
• At the heart of Thanksgiving is one of our oldest sacraments: gathering around the table to share a meal.
  — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Nov. 2019
• Only priests could baptize, ordain, perform the sacrament of the Eucharist and give last rites.
  — Lisa Bitel, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Mar. 2022
• In Catholicism, the priest is thought of as a mediator through the sacraments between God and his people.
  — Marilynne Robinson, New Republic, 12 Dec. 2017
• Seen in this light, eating is a direct embrace of life, a sacrament, distinct from the knife-and-fork culture of the West or the chopsticks culture of the Far East.
  — Chandrahas Choudhury, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2022
• Priesthood-holding Latter-day Saint youths in Africa prepare to pass the sacrament.
  — Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Nov. 2022
• At least one priest holds up to five masses each Sunday, strapping on a flak jacket and driving the sacrament from church to church.
  — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 28 June 2022
• The parish has increased the availability of the sacrament of confession in recent years and has seen a good response to it.
  — Mary Schneidau Sullivan, Laurel Leader, 19 Apr. 2018
• The ruling means the archbishop cannot receive the sacraments of the Roman Catholic Church, such as communion.
  — Christopher Lamb, CNN, 5 July 2024
• Dill’s father is a preacher, and his church embraces snake handling as a sacrament.
  — Carrie Rollwagon, Southern Living, 7 Dec. 2016
• Thus, any change in who's able to receive the sacrament is up to the individual parishes.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 11 Feb. 2020
• The gathering is the first of its kind in 83 years after United States bishops voted to undergo a revival for the sacrament of communion.
  — Alysa Guffey, The Indianapolis Star, 15 July 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024