commandment

Xiang joked that she was following the first commandment of going analog: “Touch grass.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

While I wouldn’t risk a cold start with time-consuming laminated dough, in general I found that breaking the “thou shalt preheat” commandment worthwhile.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 2, 2024

“We have a commandment to conquer it,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2024

Do we still, even in the faintest way, hear that Surrealist commandment: “Transform the world, change life”?

From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2024

With my mother and little sisters across the Atlantic and my father somewhere beneath it, Mrs. Brenner had declared her intervention a mitzvah, a commandment of God.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

I was following one of the most important commandments of retirement: Keep busy to stave off feelings of isolation or depression.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 18, 2025

They've inspired great works of art and literature, motivated countless believers to obey God's commandments and driven some of the bloodiest conflicts in the collective biography of our species.

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2023

For example, the first of the commandments given to Moses by Yahweh demands that the Hebrews “have no other gods before me.”

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

And Biff and Happy’s take on trash-talking, no less than Linda’s maternal don’t-cross-me commandments — “Attention must be finally paid!” — awakens lines you’ve heard innumerable times, asserting their implacable realness.

From New York Times ● Oct. 9, 2022

Of all the commandments, number ten gives me the greatest pause for thought.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman