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

She observes a circus of sinning, with all seven of the cardinal ones represented.

From New York Times • Jul. 19, 2022

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

I never sinning I always winning Now I got Jesus.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole