Example Sentences

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Some say he has sinned but should be forgiven.

From Fox News • Aug. 27, 2020

For if man has sinned by tasting of knowledge, the guilt that punishes him repeats his crime: with all its finger-wagging and tenor of “I told you so”, guilt itself comes over as awfully knowing.

From The Guardian • Oct. 3, 2017

Gatlin has sinned, but the outrage, particularly from those who know better, edges toward the absurd.

From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2017

Totally different teams, different stories — a very good team that always flops and a very poor team that has sinned in every way except the failures by which the Caps have defined themselves nationally.

From Washington Post • May 17, 2017

And another thing, mother, every one of us has sinned against all men, and I more than any.”

From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor