sinning

Example Sentences

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Crusaders came to expect standard privileges like the indulgence, a means to reduce the penance owed for sinning by giving money directly to the church or paying for masses or other clerical services.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

He insists he is a man more sinned against than sinning and is working with lawyers to clear his name.

From BBC • Jul. 13, 2021

I’ve been oppressed by all these facts and evidence that dinned against My simple claim that I am not more sinning than I’m sinned against.

From Washington Post • Jul. 7, 2021

In both lore and real life, physical differences have been read as warnings of danger, symbols of evil, or evidence of sinning or witchcraft.

From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2020

I never sinning I always winning Now I got Jesus.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole