How to Use saint in a Sentence

saint

noun

• The salesperson was a saint for putting up with them.
• He was declared a saint in the fifth century.
• The lives of the saints to me are kind of like horrible fables.
  — Erik Morse, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2023
• So much more than the Americana saint he was seen as at the end.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 10 Oct. 2023
• But not a saint in terms of being chaste and pure and sexless.
  — Abby Diamond, Billboard, 2 Sep. 2022
• For the people helped by the network, like Curtis, Yager was a saint.
  — Corin Cesaric, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2022
• The days would be named for aspects of rural life rather than for saints.
  — Dominic Green, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2023
• Such were the makings of our devotion to a great saint.
  — Nicholas Tomaino, WSJ, 19 Mar. 2023
• Then, the saint ordered one of his disciples to swim across the loch to retrieve a boat for the men.
  — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2022
• For hundreds of years, hurricanes took their names for the saints linked to the date the storm made landfall.
  — Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 19 Aug. 2023
• Religion at its worst can be a tool to divide — the saints and the sinners.
  — Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2023
• The saint part is the gift the creatives give us: a song to live by, a book to change the world, an innovation that changes lives.
  — Amity Shlaes, National Review, 8 Dec. 2023
• She was turned into a saint so that her life could be turned into a moral.
  — Blair McClendon, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
• For hundreds of years, storms were named after saint days.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 2 June 2023
• The researchers don’t know who the bone splinters belonged to, or whether that person was a saint.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Jan. 2023
• Instead, saints with the iconographic power of Mayan deities lined the walls.
  — Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 22 June 2023
• Rarely are his leads neat or tidy, and true to form Lib is no saint, with sorrows and secrets of her own.
  — Thomas Page, CNN, 16 Nov. 2022
• Of course, Coco could not take a living and breathing saint like that out.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 20 Oct. 2022
• Inside the cathedral are icons from the 18th century, as well as new icons of Alaskan saints.
  — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 3 June 2023
• Where few would say Kanye has much virtue to spread around these days, Lamar is regarded by many as a saint.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2022
• She was sometimes described, with only some irony, as a saint, her fans as a cult.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2022
• The saint wasn't really a bearded man who wore a red suit; that look came much later.
  — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 23 Sep. 2022
• The tropical fruit represented the golden gifts from the saint, and oranges were a rare treat in the 1800s.
  — Chelsey Cox, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2021
• God had other plans for the would-be saint, according to Catholic Online.
  — Leah Asmelash, CNN, 17 Mar. 2022
• Highsmith saw him as an egotist who doesn’t disagree when friends call him a saint.
  — Amy Nicholson, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2022
• Caroline and Sonya are the two saints who married my brothers.
  — Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 14 May 2023
• Mother White, the saint of early Anchorage, had died, and the nascent town shut down to pay its respects.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Mar. 2022
• Sicilian churches burned with the relics of saints inside them.
  — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 29 July 2023
• The earliest depictions of the saint depict him in blue robes and garments.
  — Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 15 Mar. 2024
• Gay groups were banned from the parade the next year on the grounds that their presence was inappropriate for a celebration of a Catholic saint.
  — Liam Stack, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024