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

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

He’s willing to acknowledge that his earlier comments about hanging were “trollish and hostile,” but he clearly feels more sinned against than sinning.

From Washington Post • Apr. 23, 2018

She told me about Hell and sinning and how we go to church to learn how to live in God’s image.

From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy