How to Use bat mitzvah in a Sentence

bat mitzvah

1 of 2 noun
  • That was started by a 13-year-old girl as a bat mitzvah project.
    — Sandra Barrera, Daily News, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Throw bar and bat mitzvahs at Insa in Gowanus.
    — The Editors, Curbed, 16 Apr. 2026
  • For once, a bat mitzvah wasn’t something to be mocked, or eye-rolled, or bemoaned.
    — Jonah Platt, Variety, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Harnick’s legacy will live on at bar and bat mitzvahs and weddings of all faiths for all time.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023
  • The movie doesn’t pass judgment, per se, on the state of today’s upscale bat mitzvahs.
    — Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Births, deaths, bar and bat mitzvahs, meetings, classes to teach, comfort to give.
    — Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 24 Mar. 2025
  • The route took the men past a synagogue where a bat mitzvah was underway.
    — Deborah Baker june 3, Literary Hub, 3 June 2025
  • And Mila, who learned to sound out Hebrew words for her bat mitzvah.
    — David Bezmozgis, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
  • The melee ends up at a bat mitzvah, and Splinter, along with his many doppelgängers, winds up butt naked.
    — Esther Zuckerman, HollywoodReporter, 11 June 2025
  • One thing motivating me was my hopeless crush on my bat mitzvah tutor.
    — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Stacy is busy planning her bat mitzvah and ogling over her crush, Andy Goldfarb.
    — Mckinley Franklin, Variety, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Ahead of their bat mitzvahs, the girls are torn in opposite directions due to boys, friends, and teenage hormones.
    — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 26 July 2025
  • Roughly six months before my bat mitzvah, ALL of my friends ditched me in one fell swoop.
    — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 30 Aug. 2023
  • That led to gigs at Schefter’s 50th birthday party and his children’s bar and bat mitzvahs.
    — Justin Birnbaum, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2024
  • The synagogue found a new location for an upcoming adult bat mitzvah.
    — Bracey Harris, NBC news, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Haddish, who is of Jewish ancestry, had a bat mitzvah at 40.
    — Erin Jensen, USA Today, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Students recently baked her granddaughter's gluten-free almond berry bat mitzvah cake.
    — Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2023
  • My dad occasionally makes joking comments that break my heart about just wanting to make it to my daughter's bat mitzvah.
    — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Sunny is one of the main characters, a teenaged girl named Stacy Friedman, who is having a bat mitzvah.
    — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Adam Sandler's daughter enjoyed her actual bat mitzvah before being in a movie about one.
    — Janine Rubenstein, Peoplemag, 29 Aug. 2023
  • My little girl's grown up and quinceañeras are much like bat mitzvahs or sweet sixteens, very special in the Mexican culture, and it's been months in the making.
    — Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
  • When a popular boy at their religious middle school comes between the two besties, drama ensues and bat mitzvah invites get rescinded.
    — Alli Rosenbloom, CNN, 27 Aug. 2023
  • The bat mitzvah also brought together the community at The Arbor, which has seniors of all faiths.
    — Jessica Tzikas, Sun Sentinel, 12 June 2025
  • The song became ubiquitous — a staple of countless weddings, bar and bat mitzvahs, and literally any place where there’s a party going on right here.
    — Jason Newman, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2024
  • The library where generations prepared for their bar and bat mitzvahs was ruined, as was an administrative office.
    — Bracey Harris, NBC news, 14 Jan. 2026
  • On Monday, 41-year-old Ivanka shared a series of photos taken at her daughter's bat mitzvah over the weekend.
    — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 13 June 2023
  • This past April, Barrymore shared that she's been getting ready for her daughter Olive's bat mitzvah in September.
    — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
  • There are exemptions to fasting that apply to children who have not completed their bar mitzvah or bat mitzvah and adults with medical conditions or those who are pregnant.
    — Jose R. Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Sunny Sandler stars as seventh-grader Stacy who is preparing for a blowout bat mitzvah alongside her best friend Lydia.
    — Marianne Garvey, CNN, 11 Aug. 2023
  • In 2022, a TikTok user shared a video of the younger sister's bat mitzvah, according to People.
    — Julia Gomez, USA Today, 25 July 2025

bat mitzvah

2 of 2 verb
  • My friend's daughter likely held her bat mitzvah close to home in the north of Israel, away from rocket fire.
    — Heidi Schneider, Star Tribune, 18 May 2021
  • Meanwhile, glamorous and theatrical bat mitzvahs and quinceañeras occur all year long.
    — Essence, 11 May 2026
  • Soon afterward, Greene found himself in Israel for his sister’s bat mitzvah.
    — Kristin Ohlson, Discover Magazine, 15 Sep. 2011
  • But the big life moments — the birth, the wedding, the quinceañera, the bat mitzvah, the prom, the graduation, even the funeral — hit the hardest.
    — sun-sentinel.com, 24 July 2019
  • Adam Sandler's younger daughter Sunny had some high-profile guests at her recent bat mitzvah — even aside from her famous dad!
    — Jen Juneau, PEOPLE.com, 11 May 2022
  • Usually, any major life change calls for a ceremony—a baby shower, a quinceañera, a bat mitzvah, a retirement party.
    — Katy Butler, WSJ, 16 Dec. 2020
  • In season one, Lauren hosted her Hot Mitzvah, a do-over of her bat mitzvah, for her 26th birthday.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Sheila Pallay made her bat mitzvah at age 75 with one of the Torahs recovered from Czechoslovakia.
    — Steve Maas, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Tepper, who made his fortune trading distressed debt and once hired Ashlee Simpson to play his daughter’s bat mitzvah, is now the league’s richest owner.
    — Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, 8 July 2021
  • In May, the Uncut Gems actor and his wife celebrated Sunny's bat mitzvah along with some high-profile guests.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Sundheim taught at the synagogue’s preschool and coordinated events including bar and bat mitzvah ceremonies.
    — Grant Schulte, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2022
  • Wanting to keep the joy of that event in the forefront, Nosanchuk and his wife did not share with their children or the community his diagnosis until after the bat mitzvah.
    — cleveland, 13 May 2021
  • Word spread that the two players were in cahoots, the team was on the fritz and — this was true — the owner, Abe Pollin, was busy attending his niece’s bat mitzvah in Oregon.
    — Mike Klingaman, baltimoresun.com, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Shonda Waxman experienced this firsthand in October following the bat mitzvah of her daughter Hannah.
    — Matt Villano, CNN, 18 Nov. 2020

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