saint
Example Sentences
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They go off during summer festas, after Mass on big saint days, and, it turns out, when the governing party wins reelection.
From Slate • Jun. 6, 2026
With their help, the conference can put its money where its mouth is, as the patron saint of world-changing upstarts.
From Slate • May 8, 2026
An agitated Jean finds herself praying to none other than Monica Lewinsky, the patron saint of bad romantic choices, or as Langbein puts it, “of those who suffer venal public shaming and patriarchal cruelty.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026
For Alexandra, Mr. Beevor writes, this was proof that Rasputin was a saint whose “prayers were so powerful that God had intervened directly.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Not to say that I’m any sort of saint.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
Vocabulary lists containing saint
World Religions
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Medieval Europe - Introductory
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Medieval Christendom, Lessons 1–2
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