baptize
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He then excused himself to help baptize a woman near the stage.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2024
The pastor mentioned Molina’s insistence that he baptize Santiago.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2023
The audience murmured and clapped as he recounted a well-worn story about using water from Israel’s Sea of Galilee to baptize his children.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2023
The basilica Mass during the vigil of Christianity’s most important day has become an occasion for pontiffs to baptize several adults from around the world.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2023
We were taught how to baptize in case of emergency.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
Miraculous moments in the story, such as water welling from a rock where Patrick later baptizes people, play out in a quiet tone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
Her church baptizes people in it, and she has seen people cross it on foot.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2022
But in an explanatory note accompanying its decision, it recalled that when a priest baptizes someone, it is actually Christ performing the sacrament, not the community.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2022
The blistering sun baptizes during the day; the infinite dust dries you out in the afternoon; the wind bites at night.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2021
With financial help from her boyfriend, she baptizes seven-year-old Diana.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
That same sea that baptized me is, for thousands of others, a grave.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
A new breeze baptized us in another vile stink.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Vermeer was born in Delft amid the Wars of Religion and baptized in the Calvinist Reformed Church.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
The first missionary arrived on Easter Island in 1864: By 1868 all the islanders had been baptized.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
Not until late December did they take Male to St. Paul’s Church to be baptized and named Francis after his father’s father and the lovely saint of Assisi.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
They said Father Daghir suggested inviting his brother, a transitional deacon training to join his twin brother as a priest, to participate so that it would be “twins baptizing twins.”
From Washington Times ● Oct. 31, 2023
We like to merge worlds to create really absurd situations, so she was like, ‘What if it’s the NBA slam dunk contest, but with deacons baptizing babies at church?’
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2023
“I had one child in the elevator, the other I’m baptizing, and tomorrow we have a heart operation,” Tkachuk said.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2022
When asked what he would say if he were baptizing someone as a newly devout Bitcoiner, maybe in the warm waters of South Beach, Melder ad-libbed.
From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2022
“I am only baptizing in water, but someone is standing among you of whom you do not know. He is God’s Lamb, who is to remove the world’s sin.”
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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