How to Use sinner in a Sentence

sinner

noun

• Now to the saint and the sinner must be added the singers.
  — The Economist, 3 Oct. 2020
• To call a place a hell is to slander its users as demons and sinners.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 14 Dec. 2022
• Or at least does not a child of a sinner deserve to eat?
  — Michael Taylor, ExpressNews.com, 17 Apr. 2020
• Religion at its worst can be a tool to divide — the saints and the sinners.
  — Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2023
• As the home crowd erupted, Malkin spread his arms and howled, the sound of a sinner who had found atonement . . .
  — Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 17 Apr. 2018
• From the night’s saints to the sinners, here’s a look at the best, worst, and craziest looks from the 2018 Met Gala red carpet.
  — Cady Lang, Time, 8 May 2018
• All of us are sinners who can only be saved by God’s grace.
  — Emma Green, The Atlantic, 28 Oct. 2017
• In Mr. Smith’s telling, Rasputin was neither a sinner nor a saint, and very much a product of his time.
  — Steven Lee Myers, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2016
• Yet God had sent His only Son into the world to save sinners.
  — The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
• Pray for us sinners Now and at the hour of our death Steven kept a journal on his computer.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2023
• On his quest to rid Riverdale of all sinners, the Black Hood visited the Sugarman in jail and shot him to death.
  — Jasmine Gomez, Seventeen, 10 May 2019
• The soul was a thing shaped like a dog bone that resided in the center of a person’s chest and served as a kind of sinner’s scoreboard.
  — Mary Schmich, chicagotribune.com, 29 Oct. 2019
• Hal's mom told Hal that the Conways were sinners who deserved to die and that their town needs to do better.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 9 May 2018
• Plus, the sinner has been known to wear mirrors on the tops of his shoes for wanton upskirting.
  — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2021
• If there are no objections, the sinner will be sliced up and chunks of him will be distributed among the rings.
  — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2021
• Roach connects it to faith; about not condoning the sin but still loving the sinner.
  — Ryan Martin, Indianapolis Star, 23 Oct. 2019
• Not just among the other sinners at my parish, but with the characters in the Holy Week narratives.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 9 Apr. 2020
• Like many on Side B, he’s since been called both a sinner for being gay and a self-hater for choosing celibacy.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Dec. 2022
• On this Palm Sunday there were many sinners at Amen Corner.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], nola.com, 15 Apr. 2019
• As the world braces for the First Monday in May, here are pop culture's most mesmerizing saints and sinners.
  — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 19 Apr. 2018
• In No Exit, three sinners are locked in a room together.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 12 Jan. 2018
• The sinner, washed with the cleansing waters of attention.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 1 Aug. 2017
• Smith calls them sinners, but accepts the financial support the Duchess offers to her cause.
  — Steve Mannheimer, Indianapolis Star, 20 Dec. 2017
• Against the backdrop of Zaytoven’s holy production, Future is just a sinner like the rest of us.
  — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 6 July 2018
• But Orwell, who had no use for religion of any kind, missed the point: For Greene, the sinner was uniquely close to and knowledgeable of God.
  — Terry Teachout, National Review, 4 Mar. 2021
• Prepare to be pegged by Satan’s pitchfork in hell, sinner.
  — Sophie Saint Thomas, GQ, 20 June 2017
• Jesus…loved sinners, people who didn’t deserve it, that’s what grace is.
  — Newsweek Special Edition, Newsweek, 5 Mar. 2018
• As Oscar Wilde said, every saint has a past, every sinner has a future.
  — Fox News, 27 Aug. 2018
• Imagine the crawling sinners of Van Eyck’s Last Judgment if the painting were turned upside down like, well, a snow globe.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 21 Jan. 2024
• To paraphrase Oscar Wilde: Every saint had a past, and every sinner has a future.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024