Example Sentences

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This is something that we have a duty to do for our brothers and sisters, against whom we are sinning by omission as well as by commission.

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2016

My parents are sinning against their own flesh and blood; but they will rue it.

From A Young Girl's Diary by Paul, Eden

Ah! even now doubtless you are sinning in the dreams of Hildegardis, richly-gifted and happy knight!

From Aslauga's Knight by La Motte-Fouqué, Friedrich Heinrich Karl Freiherr de

Heinrich, you understand the conditions of a higher national development, and know you are working against it; you are sinning against the most sacred rights of humanity, yet say you are laboring for the whole.

From A Twofold Life by Hillern, Wilhelmine von

Men are sinning and suffering because social conditions are all wrong.

From Christ, Christianity and the Bible by Haldeman, Isaac Massey