benediction

Example Sentences

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This would be a fitting benediction if the storm had passed, but so far that hasn’t happened.

From Seattle Times

The catalogue lists 40 people who escaped enslavement in Montgomery County, Md., followed by the phrase “may their memory be a blessing,” a traditional Jewish benediction.

From Washington Post

Morgan Freeman closed the luncheon with a benediction to celebrate the honorees, including the late actor Sidney Poitier, who died at the age of 94 early this year.

From Seattle Times

Whether it was the benediction or the stew is difficult to say, though I received one prayer and ate two bowls.

From Washington Post

Haitink lay something close to a benediction on that benighted music, and through it on us, as if to say that everything would be all right, that we could accept calmly what was to come.

From New York Times