How to Use benediction in a Sentence

benediction

noun
  • He dismissed the congregation with a benediction.
  • This night and this project would be more than a benediction.
    — Holly Gleason, Variety, 2 June 2023
  • The melody is fond and gentle; the song sounds like a benediction.
    — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 8 May 2017
  • What a stimulus and benediction even to meet with for a day!
    — Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The moon rose over the mountain and Kay gave a kind of benediction.
    — Beth Thames | [email protected], al, 9 Sep. 2020
  • In her farewell, Sarah gave him a fitting benediction.
    — Jasmine Baehr , Jennifer Griffin, FOXNews.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Beauty can be a trap as much as a benediction, including for men.
    — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2020
  • The program will close with a benediction followed by a white dove release.
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2026
  • The program will close with a benediction followed by a white dove release.
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2024
  • Worshipers began writhing as if in pain, others waved their hands in the air in benediction.
    — Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2022
  • The poem is, in some ways, a homage or benediction for those who did not survive the crossing.
    — Daniel Olivas, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Chavez put her head down during the closing benediction and touched her palms together in prayer.
    — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Then my grandfather exploded, in a way that did not end with a change-of-heart benediction.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2022
  • How sad Shelton did not live long enough to see the cultural benediction.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 24 May 2021
  • The ancient monastery clings to the rock face, suspended between earth and sky like a benediction.
    — Shunali Khullar Shroff, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Nov. 2025
  • Wickersham listens to his friend describe his strengths, and hears it in a benediction.
    — Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The closing of a letter suits the liminal space of the benediction.
    — Julia Cho, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2024
  • Viewed that way, the night’s awards benediction was little more than a formality.
    — Vulture, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Even the interior scenes are brushed with a golden light, and sometimes that light feels like a benediction.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 7 Jan. 2022
  • Like seraphs’ wings, these white flowers fan out beyond the edges of the canvas in a silent gesture of benediction.
    — Colin B. Bailey, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
  • The ceremony will close with a benediction followed by a white dove release.
    — Linda McIntosh, sandiegouniontribune.com, 22 May 2018
  • The ceremony will close with a benediction followed by a white dove release.
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 May 2022
  • On that recent night, Spinks and Brenda made it in time for the benediction and found seats in the balcony.
    — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2020
  • Language barrier aside, sitting with him in the courtyard was a benediction.
    — Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Yet many of the images, served up as an abstract dreamscape during the film’s latter stretches, amount to a benediction.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 24 May 2018
  • In this state of rapt immediacy even the striking of the clocks sounds like a benediction; empty time has been enriched.
    — Sam Sacks, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Offering a ‘benediction’ for my readers from my writing desk on one of the gayest places on earth felt on-brand and honest for what my life looks like today.
    — Literary Hub, 7 May 2026
  • The ending is one of the most wrenching spiritual benedictions in all of cinema.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2020
  • The event traditionally ends with a benediction — a solemn toast — but Pacino rewrote the rule book.
    — Tim Gray, Variety, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Ice Cube and Pitbull did a few numbers, and Smith was there to deliver a benediction.
    — Sam Kestenbaum, Vulture, 2 Jan. 2026

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