sin

Example Sentences

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That would be considered a mortal sin by the vast majority of football fandom.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026

They focused on people who had leprosy, a disease historically linked with stigma and ideas of sin, as well as tuberculosis.

From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2026

Miriam is vivacious and energetic but dogged by an unexplained sin from her earlier life—a sin that vests itself in the sinister person of her “model.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

He has written an entire book criticizing “the sin of empathy.”

From Slate • Jan. 30, 2026

And yet he too drew down on himself the anger of the gods and by the sin the gods never forgave.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton