Example Sentences

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“I just honestly feel like so many people have been blessing me that there was a point where I’m like, ‘I can’t just sit around and be sad.’

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 24, 2025

But even Francis has voiced support for civil laws extending legal benefits to same-sex spouses, and Catholic priests in parts of Europe have been blessing same-sex unions without Vatican censure.

From Washington Times • Oct. 2, 2023

Funerals are no longer allowed, like all other gatherings of people, but we have been blessing 16 or 17 bodies a week.

From Slate • Mar. 27, 2020

Or he may have been blessing his flock—I know not which.

From Salute to Adventurers by Buchan, John

“Like the blind mortal that I am, I was blaming myself, and my fate, too, when I should have been blessing my fortune.”

From The White Squaw by Reid, Mayne