How to Use sin in a Sentence

sin

1 of 2 noun

• And wasn’t this the sin, wasn’t this the scandal, wasn’t this the very name of the crime?
  — Cynthia Ozick, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
• His real crime is his love for the ideals of the free world, and for that sin, the West must rescue him at all costs.
  — Melik Kaylan, WSJ, 7 July 2023
• Though hailed and paid as one, Booker isn’t quite there yet (no great sin for a 22-year-old on the right track).
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 19 June 2023
• He is weighed down by guilt, and in this universe, guilt, or, rather, sin, is what the devil feeds on.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 15 Apr. 2023
• Guilt, like sin, is the yeast that makes monsters of our fears and anxieties.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023
• The pleasures of Obsession are fully enmeshed with the sins and the tragedy.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 13 Apr. 2023
• He's planned a seance to talk with his dead wife, leading to a frightful night dealing with sins of the past and ghosts of war.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2023
• In the sin city of the 1990s, casinos had become marked by tawdry décor and all-you-can-eat buffets.
  — Tony Perrottet, Travel + Leisure, 23 Nov. 2023
• The worshipful film commits just about every sin in the Big Book of Biopics.
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2023
• The platforms that control search were conceived in sin.
  — Anastasia Kozyreva, Fortune, 21 Feb. 2023
• According to Clement, the dead would face tests in which their remaining sins were burned away, as iron is forged in the fire.
  — Lanta Davis and Vince Reighard, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Mar. 2024
• His greatest sin against the current culture may have been the fact that Jeff Bezos isn’t very much fun to hate.
  — Nicholas Clairmont, Washington Examiner, 11 Feb. 2021
• In Mongolia, the texture of sin felt less like a crime against God than against oneself.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• But at its core, the show is a compelling thriller about how the sins of humanity’s past come to shape its future.
  — Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 21 Mar. 2024
• Kids today are dealing with the sins of their parents climate change alone.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Oct. 2023
• For centuries in the West, and still in many nations today, suicide was considered among the vilest of sins and most heinous of crimes.
  — Clancy Martin, WSJ, 1 Apr. 2023
• But after four years cooped up in a monastery, Mary runs away and heads straight for (figurative) sin city.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2023
• When Jesus was on the cross, God turned his back on him, the minister said, because Jesus had all of our sins on him.
  — Harry Bruinius, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2023
• The church was clear in their belief that whiteness was purity and darkness was sin.
  — The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
• Hartnett: The sins that lead to their horrible outcome.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 June 2023
• The Sonoran is a special kind of sin, a hot dog wrapped snug in bacon and then grilled, fusing the meats into a smoky flavor bomb.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 16 Mar. 2023
• In sacred months, good deeds weigh heavier and sins are more serious as well.
  — Manal Aman, Good Housekeeping, 13 June 2023
• Each person has a balance of their own good deeds and sins based on their intentions and actions.
  — Manal Aman, Woman's Day, 12 June 2023
• The appearance of a conflict of interest is sin enough.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 14 Apr. 2023
• Wash me completely clean of my guilt; purify me from my sin!
  — Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 25 Jan. 2023
• Sisyphus was condemned for a sin, and his punishment was to roll a big, heavy boulder up a steep mountain.
  — Ashley Diamond Elizondo, ExpressNews.com, 10 June 2020
• Still, many religious leaders consider the use of cannabis a sin.
  — Elissa Esher, Rolling Stone, 2 Mar. 2023
• Bamford writes well, which can cover a multitude of sins.
  — Tim Weiner, The New Republic, 27 Mar. 2023
• All but a few medieval European tapestries are sent to art hell for the sin of trying to be too much like paintings.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2024
• In Wingard’s hands, neither beast carries the burden of being a metaphor for humanity’s sins.
  — Amy Nicholson, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024

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sin

2 of 2 verb

• Forgive me, for I have sinned.
• In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
  — Karla Pope, Good Housekeeping, 21 Feb. 2023
• Hicks has spent a ton of time on OSU’s campus over the past few months attending both games sin the fall and camps in the summer.
  — Stephen Means, cleveland, 13 Nov. 2021
• Labile derives both from the Late Middle English word, liable, as in liable to sin or err, and from Latin, labi, which means to fall.
  — Maureen Stanton, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• Is that great advice for living or terrible license to sin?
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2022
• Russell said Bryant told him his future was bright and there would be other winning moment sin his career.
  — Kent Youngblood, Star Tribune, 6 Feb. 2021
• God says that following their entry into the land of Israel, the Jews would sin, resulting in their exile.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 19 July 2021
• God says that, following their entry into the land of Israel, the Jews would sin, resulting in their exile.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 8 Aug. 2022
• There is, perhaps, a game to be played with novels along these lines, dividing fictional characters into those who sin and those who are merely wrongheaded and sad.
  — Anne Enright, The New York Review of Books, 23 July 2020
• Or, to interpret the overly charitable praise of the America reviewer: to sin shamelessly.
  — Armond White, National Review, 10 Feb. 2023
• At most, the Holmes verdict serves as a cautionary tale as old as time, reminding us about the fallibility of human nature and importance of proper checks-and-balances that guard against our inherent propensity to sin.
  — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 4 Jan. 2022
• Forgive me, for I have sinned.
• In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
  — Karla Pope, Good Housekeeping, 21 Feb. 2023
• Hicks has spent a ton of time on OSU’s campus over the past few months attending both games sin the fall and camps in the summer.
  — Stephen Means, cleveland, 13 Nov. 2021
• Labile derives both from the Late Middle English word, liable, as in liable to sin or err, and from Latin, labi, which means to fall.
  — Maureen Stanton, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• Is that great advice for living or terrible license to sin?
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2022
• Russell said Bryant told him his future was bright and there would be other winning moment sin his career.
  — Kent Youngblood, Star Tribune, 6 Feb. 2021
• God says that following their entry into the land of Israel, the Jews would sin, resulting in their exile.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 19 July 2021
• God says that, following their entry into the land of Israel, the Jews would sin, resulting in their exile.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 8 Aug. 2022
• There is, perhaps, a game to be played with novels along these lines, dividing fictional characters into those who sin and those who are merely wrongheaded and sad.
  — Anne Enright, The New York Review of Books, 23 July 2020
• Or, to interpret the overly charitable praise of the America reviewer: to sin shamelessly.
  — Armond White, National Review, 10 Feb. 2023
• At most, the Holmes verdict serves as a cautionary tale as old as time, reminding us about the fallibility of human nature and importance of proper checks-and-balances that guard against our inherent propensity to sin.
  — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 4 Jan. 2022
• Forgive me, for I have sinned.
• In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
  — Karla Pope, Good Housekeeping, 21 Feb. 2023
• Hicks has spent a ton of time on OSU’s campus over the past few months attending both games sin the fall and camps in the summer.
  — Stephen Means, cleveland, 13 Nov. 2021
• Labile derives both from the Late Middle English word, liable, as in liable to sin or err, and from Latin, labi, which means to fall.
  — Maureen Stanton, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• Is that great advice for living or terrible license to sin?
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2022
• Russell said Bryant told him his future was bright and there would be other winning moment sin his career.
  — Kent Youngblood, Star Tribune, 6 Feb. 2021
• God says that following their entry into the land of Israel, the Jews would sin, resulting in their exile.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 19 July 2021
• God says that, following their entry into the land of Israel, the Jews would sin, resulting in their exile.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 8 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024