baptized

Example Sentences

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The first missionary arrived on Easter Island in 1864: By 1868 all the islanders had been baptized.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

Catholicism is the faith I was baptized in, the one I embraced as a teen and that’s the bedrock for my moral code of comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2025

In 2024, he doubled down on his commitment to Christianity and was baptized in the River Thames.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2025

He knows the rules better than most baptized Catholics.

From Salon • May 23, 2025

It was when we were baptized the Freedom Writers; a name that will forever stay with us, as individuals, and as a movement.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers