sacrament

Example Sentences

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Perhaps he didn’t understand the new Protestant Communion—rather than at an altar, the sacrament now took place over a table covered with a simple cloth—and he was pleading that someone explain it to him.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

L.A. is a city of reinvention, where second chances are a civic sacrament and residents often overlook the flaws of the famous.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

Catholicism also makes a ceremony of transubstantiating flesh into a sacrament to feed the soul.

From Salon • Oct. 4, 2024

Smith, the Supreme Court upheld the firing of two Native American employees who had been denied unemployment benefits after using peyote, a sacrament in their religious ceremonies.

From Slate • Mar. 12, 2024

By then we would be ready for confession Saturday and then the receiving of the sacrament on the most holy of days, Easter Sunday.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya