sinning

Example Sentences

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His Adam is aptly named; he’s a biblical kind of hero, sinning and suffering.

From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2023

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

Even if your daughters are, in some sense, more sinned against than sinning, you could reasonably worry that putting resources in their hands will allow them to support destructive causes.

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2022

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 never sinning I always winning Now I got Jesus.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole