How to Use Christian in a Sentence

Christian

1 of 2 noun
  • Yuchen’s whole thing is streetwear, and Christian tells Yuchen this is his time to shine.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Fisher coached eighth-graders at Heritage Christian this past year.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 2023-08-07
  • Patent leather boots by Christian Louboutin completed the look.
    — Jackie Fields, Peoplemag, 2024-01-08
  • If 10-year-old Christian Savitskie breaks a leg, his dad could lose his job.
    — Darcie Moran, Freep.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • But a group of the folks who made Wunderlist in the first place, led by co-founder Christian Reber, set out to bring its spirit back to life.
    — David Pierce, The Verge, 2024-02-13
  • These days, Portage senior offensive tackle Christian Partlow can joke about his size.
    — Michael Osipoff, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Pumpkin spice plays a starring role in another zeitgeist-y meme when Christian Girl Autumn breaks out.
    — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 2023-09-12
  • The site is known for its notable ancient Christian remains, including cemeteries and churches.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Sibley grew up Christian but according to his family, always had their acceptance.
    — Meagan Jordan, Rolling Stone, 2023-08-07
  • Photo: Courtesy of Christian Allaire Then, came the styling conundrum.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 2023-09-12
  • Judge and fashion designer Christian Siriano added that there wasn't hanging space for Barbie's everyday clothes.
    — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 2023-08-07
  • But is watching a TV show the same as being a real Christian in a way evangelical orthodoxy might recognize?
    — Kathryn Reklis, CNN, 2023-04-07
  • Christian Slater’s Clarence was a huge Sonny Chiba fan in that film (and an obvious Tarantino self-insert).
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Read full article At the sentencing hearing, Thao spoke at length about his growth as a Christian during his 340 days behind bars.
    — Steve Karnowski, BostonGlobe.com, 2023-08-07
  • Fayetteville was also able to run the ball much better this year, especially with senior Christian Setzer following his blockers for good yardage out of the backfield.
    — Rick Fires, arkansasonline.com, 2023-12-10
  • See over 100 artists at the 40 Days of Christian Music Festival with a concert every day.
    — Caroline Ritzie, The Enquirer, 31 Aug. 2025
  • His funeral began at 12:17 p.m. at Faith Chapel Christian Center.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 2023-07-26
  • Last year, a teenage girl killed two people and wounded several others at Abundant Life Christian School in Wisconsin.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The magazine cites that Massoud wore a custom Zegna tuxedo with Christian Louboutin shoes for their second wedding ceremony.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Valor Christian’s size and talent at the skill positions, headlined by do-everything Cash Spence, was too much to handle for Regis Jesuit.
    — Matt Schubert, Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Tustin, 25-13, 25-12 Whittier Christian def.
    — Ocvarsity Sports Staff, Oc Register, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The desk had been passed down five generations to Christian Agostino von Hassell, his American grandson, who had stowed it with hundreds of other heirlooms, some dating back centuries.
    — Chelsia Rose Marcius, New York Times, 2023-09-28
  • Following the incident, authorities managed to retrieve 10 pairs of Versace glasses, two pairs of Prada glasses, and one pair of Christian Dior glasses.
    — Luke Gentile, Washington Examiner, 2024-01-08
  • Hatmaker’s book is part of what seems to be an emerging subgenre of divorce-growth memoir, written by people who were raised Christian such as Glennon Doyle, Lyz Lenz, and Lysa TerKeurst.
    — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Chiron Sports Group is backed by two family offices in billionaire Christian Angermeyer’s Apeiron Investment Group and Robin Lauber’s Infinitas Capital.
    — Eric Jackson, Sportico.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Christian Gonzalez is one of the NFL’s best cornerbacks, and Keion White, Marte Mapu, Kayshon Boutte, Bryce Baringer and DeMario Douglas remain on the Patriots.
    — Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 1 Sep. 2025
  • At Green Hill, Ruth is active as the event coordinator for HOSA, student body secretary on the Student Council and a leader with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) all while taking a rigorous academic schedule.
    — Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Nehemiah Martinez #20 of the Abilene Christian Wildcats lines up during overtime of the game against the Texas Tech Red Raiders at Jones AT&T Stadium on August 31, 2024 in Lubbock, Texas.
    — Ben Verbrugge, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Aug. 2025
  • After throwing for 274 yards last week in a 55-20 victory over Temecula’s Rancho Christian, the senior quarterback was on point once again Friday night, completing 18-of-26 passes for 248 yards and three touchdowns with an interception for a 35-7 home victory against West Hills.
    — Breven Honda, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025

Christian

2 of 2 adjective
  • Christian worries that Yuchen isn’t getting enough done.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Waiting for the just and deserved Christian reward at the end of it all.
    — CBS News, 2024-03-17
  • Her casual shoe of choice was a pair of hot pink Christian Louboutin loafers.
    — Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 2023-09-11
  • Good Christian people, I am come hither to die.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Some members of the Christian community fled their homes to escape the mob.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 2023-08-17
  • Some on the Christian right reject Trump’s use of religious analogies.
    — Marc Fisher, Washington Post, 2023-10-11
  • The ad, signed by more than 900 Christian faith leaders, was perhaps the clearest sign yet of the movement’s growth.
    — Sheera Frenkel, New York Times, 2024-04-12
  • The windows do away with the plaintive or supplicating figures more common to Christian stained glass.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 2023-12-07
  • The shooter expressed hate towards Christian people.
    — Sydney Topf, The Washington Examiner, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The country’s primary Christian population has also ensured that wine has long been made for use in the church and at home.
    — Liza B. Zimmerman, Forbes, 2023-11-28
  • Most are Muslims, but there is also a large Christian Arab minority.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 2023-10-21
  • Reverend Saviour The Christian preacher who changes Tommy’s life for the better.
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 2023-11-04
  • Starting at dawn, a priest-DJ started spinning thumping reggae and Christian hymns from the sound system.
    — Nicole Winfield, BostonGlobe.com, 2023-08-06
  • Christian thinkers sometimes solved the quandary of the wondrous peoples by claiming them as descendants of Cain or Ham, writes den Hartog.
    — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 28 Aug. 2025
  • While the sample size was small and heavily composed of Christian religious leaders, the findings are noteworthy.
    — Pardis Mahdavi, The Conversation, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The young siblings sang and danced in a traveling stage show that shaped the impression of a perfect Christian American family.
    — Ellen Piligian, Detroit Free Press, 2024-01-07
  • But as with the Holy Grail of ancient Christian legend, an early-detection multicancer test has long eluded all who have pursued it.
    — Cory Franklin, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Many are small Christian colleges, but the group also includes large universities such as Northeastern and Carnegie Mellon.
    — Collin Binkley, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Discovery By Deduction The Christian symbols on the mosaic initially suggested the floor was part of a church.
    — Leslie Katz, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Standing in the evening sun, with a 10-gallon water jug and a stack of plastic cups to keep them hydrated, the group sang over a dozen Christian songs — and a couple of Latter-day Saint hymns.
    — Emily Anderson Stern, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2023-08-08
  • There are biblical allusions to a devil on the move (seeking the ruin of souls, perhaps, as in the Christian prayer to St. Michael the Archangel) and lessons to the singer’s two sons not to judge others.
    — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 2023-09-29
  • The woman has sincerely held Pentecostal Christian beliefs and practices the religion of Free Holiness, the complaint notes.
    — Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Per that methodology, the 2023 shooting at a Christian school in Nashville is the only case of a shooting by a transgender person included in the database.
    — Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
  • In 2023, a 28-year-old killed three children and three adults at The Covenant School, a private Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Ruth by Kate Riley Raised in a rigid world of Christian communism, Ruth grows up in a community where every routine is meant to be a prayer and every question is quietly discouraged.
    — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Schmalz, of Holy Cross, said the incident tests Catholic Christian perspectives of a church as a place to contemplate the effects of violence, given the ever-present image of Jesus Christ on the cross.
    — Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The Brotherhood bears some resemblance to the Bruderhof, a tiny Christian pacifist sect founded in Germany in the nineteen-twenties that left its country of origin and spread around the globe in response to Nazi Fascism.
    — Hannah Gold, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025
  • After a former student opened fire at a Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee, in 2023, killing three children and three adults, conservative commentators were convinced that the fact that the assailant had identified as transgender played a role in the crime.
    — Ernesto Londoño, Twin Cities, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The celebration began with a welcome dinner at Tenuta Di Sticciano in Certaldo, followed by a Hindu wedding ceremony in the gardens overlooking the Tuscan hills the next day and a Coptic Christian ceremony the day after that, per Vogue India.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Continue reading … MEDIA FAITH UNDER ATTACK – Christian university breaks records despite Biden-era probes.
    — FOXNews.com, 26 Aug. 2025

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