How to Use confession in a Sentence

confession

noun
  • I haven't gone to confession in three years.
  • She went to the police station and made a full confession.
  • The priest will hear confessions after mass today.
  • I have a confession to make: I have never done this before.
  • In all, there would be five such confessions.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
  • That is, the rule that when a priest hears a confession, it cannot be shared.
    — James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 May 2025
  • The rest of the film deals with the fallout from her confession.
    — Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Rosa covered his ears when the confession was played in court.
    — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Deputies said Ates gave a full confession.
    — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Daye croons, confession-like, on the almost five-minute-long track.
    — Meagan Jordan, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2021
  • This can also be a glow-up, a confession or even a rebrand.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 5 June 2026
  • Instead of a confession, the book would be more like a chorus.
    — Literary Hub, 18 June 2026
  • Also, this doesn’t have to be a big confession to either of them.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2021
  • This should be the time of great love stories and fireworks and confessions of love!
    — Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2025
  • In many towns, a shriving bell was rung to call villagers to confession.
    — Grace Linden, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Who could forget the dumpling confession that caused Pat to bolt off the stage?
    — Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 18 May 2022
  • The judge ruled Thursday the teen's confession could be used in court.
    — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 21 June 2024
  • McAdam ordered that the confession be struck from the record.
    — Vanessa Arredondo, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2023
  • As close to an on-the-record confession from the assailant as one was likely to find.
    — Jessica M. Goldstein, The New Republic, 1 July 2021
  • The night of her son’s confession, Sigg stayed with her sister.
    — Dakin Andone, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The girls follow up their big night out with confession, like good Catholics.
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 6 Aug. 2021
  • In the days since his confession, he’s been active as ever.
    — Kenneal Patterson, Vanity Fair, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Of course, the confession was met with an uproar of laughter.
    — Michelle Lee, PEOPLE, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Send in the best confession—anonymously, of course—and the cash prize was yours.
    — Deborah Cohen, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2022
  • And, above all, there was the total, even painful honesty of his confession.
    — Haruki Murakami, The New Yorker, 1 June 2020
  • If music is confession for you, then what is acting?
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Reyes’s confession led to a reopening of the case.
    — Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 10 Apr. 2026
  • No one cared that the confessions came without counsel.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
  • What did Emma say about her confession?
    — Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 3 Apr. 2026
  • That confession was read to each jury and judge who went on to sentence Owens to death.
    — CBS News, 20 Sep. 2024

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