How to Use Lent in a Sentence

Lent

noun
  • The end of Lent means a steak dinner awaits my next restaurant escape.
    — Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 2025-04-11
  • The exception is Lent when there is carryout each week.
    — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 2024-03-07
  • Fried fish season has arrived with the beginning of Lent.
    — Joe Guillen, Axios, 2025-03-05
  • The Lent season is coming to a close, which means Easter is just a skip and a hop away.
    — Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 2024-03-18
  • Spring is around the corner, which means the return of the Christian season of Lent.
    — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 2025-07-02
  • The boycott on Target was planned to run alongside Lent, for 40 days.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 2025-04-24
  • Easter is a day of celebration, and with Lent over, Christians can eat meat.
    — Marina Johnson, The Indianapolis Star, 2024-03-19
  • Snails were classified as fish by the Catholic Church and could even be eaten during Lent.
    — Garritt C. Van Dyk, Smithsonian Magazine, 2025-05-29
  • Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent, a season marked by sacrifice and solemnity.
    — Ruth Graham, New York Times, 2024-02-14
  • The boycott is starting on the first day of Lent, and will concurrently last a total of 40 days.
    — Solcyré Burga, TIME, 2025-03-05
  • Lauren recommends giving up fancy, creamy coffee drinks for Lent.
    — Wired Staff, WIRED, 2024-02-15
  • In addition, many adherents of Lent are older, and a key benefit of cannabis is relief.
    — Tribune Content Agency, The Mercury News, 2025-03-12
  • Something about the liturgical season of Lent seems effortful.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 2024-03-22
  • For many in New Orleans, spring means Lent and church fish fries: plates of fish, hush puppies, and mac and cheese, picked up on your way home from work.
    — Madeleine Deliee, Southern Living, 2021-03-19
  • In the Christian tradition, Lent is a season of giving something up for 40 days.
    — Janine Schindler, Forbes.com, 2025-04-07
  • Mother's Day in Britain is celebrated on the fourth Sunday of Lent, which varies from year to year.
    — Jay Stahl, USA TODAY, 2024-03-10
  • The practices were somewhat penitential, but not as intense as those of Lent, and the spirit was much more preparation than penance.
    — WSJ, 2024-01-04
  • Once Easter came and Lent ended, Alvarez offered to take her grandma to some new local spots for chocolate.
    — Jordan Greene, People.com, 2025-04-30
  • Here’s where to eat in and around Sacramento: Observing Lent in Sacramento area?
    — Kendrick Marshall, Sacramento Bee, 2025-03-07
  • For the Vatican, the Lent of 2025 takes place in a desert of uncertainty as the pope’s health hangs in the balance.
    — Christopher Lamb, CNN, 2025-03-08
  • With Lent underway and Easter just around the corner, churches are once again immersed in one of their busiest seasons (along with Christmas).
    — Joe Yogerst, Forbes, 2025-03-21
  • The Catholic Church in Venezuela bent the rules for the semiaquatic animal, allowing it to be eaten during Lent.
    — Gary Shteyngart, The New Yorker, 2025-01-27
  • On Wednesday, Catholics started observing the liturgical season of Lent.
    — William Lambers, Newsweek, 2025-03-08
  • As Indianapolis-area churches offer Friday fish fries during Lent, some restaurants are doing the same.
    — Bradley Hohulin, IndyStar, 2025-07-02
  • Historically, one aspect of the celebrations was that the Lent restrictions on alcohol would be lifted for the day.
    — Marianne Eloise, Vulture, 2025-03-14
  • Every winter before Lent, Cádiz holds a raucous 10-day carnival and street party that spotlights comedy even more than music and dance.
    — Christopher Bagley, Travel + Leisure, 2025-05-11
  • In February, in the weeks leading up to Lent, this momentous event sees locals enjoy a weekend of celebration ahead of Easter.
    — AFAR Media, 28 Aug. 2025
  • During Lent, Simone prepares a weekly fish dinner smothered in a creamy sauce with a distinct hint of nutmeg, at her home in Issy-les-Moulineaux, a suburb southwest of the city.
    — Shane Mitchell, Saveur, 2024-03-28
  • And, between Lent, Advent, Wednesdays and Fridays, and various other days, as many as 150 days of the year might require fasting for lay people.
    — Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 4 Aug. 2025
  • This massive catch of fried fish, of course, is designed largely to satisfy the cravings of Catholics who, prior to 1966, abstained from eating red meat every Friday, not just those during Lent.
    — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 2024-02-28

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