benediction
Example Sentences
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And on Friday, the Chicago Sun-Times gave the ultimate benediction with its cover.
From Salon • May 10, 2025
They emerge from within a rocky outcropping in an otherwise grassy field and hold up their hands, as if in benediction.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2024
Amid the rooster benediction ceremony, Notre Dame’s new restoration chief, Philippe Jost, also detailed pioneering measures taken to safeguard the iconic cathedral against future fires – in rare comments to the press.
From Washington Times • Dec. 16, 2023
When the men removed the screens with the same perfect synchronization, Charles was revealed, kneeling in a simple white shirt, surrounded by four gold-and-white-robed clerics, their hands raised in benediction.
From New York Times • May 6, 2023
Thousands of lips repeated the benediction, bent over like trees in a storm.
From "Night" by Elie Wiesel
Vocabulary lists containing benediction
Take the Bad with the Good: Bene and Mal
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