How to Use consecrate in a Sentence

consecrate

verb
  • This was a phalanx of protection, a way to consecrate and protect the place he was raised.
    — New York Times, 31 Aug. 2021
  • New distilleries have opened, as have bars consecrated to gin.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2019
  • Last Supper in which the bread and wine are consecrated and consumed.
    — Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2020
  • But before hymns could be sung, prayers could be said or the bread and wine consecrated, parishioners protested.
    — oregonlive.com, 11 Aug. 2019
  • Kernels were dried, ground, fried, grilled, baked, popped, boiled, consecrated, and hated.
    — Oliver Munday, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2023
  • And yet the movie does appear to consecrate certain human values.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Here are how some local couples grappled with how to consecrate their love in the time of coronavirus.
    — Carolyn Said, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 May 2021
  • All this was meant to consecrate the celebration of Passover.
    — Talia Lavin, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2020
  • What is significant is your willingness to consecrate your union with a lie.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Does Ocean fortify and consecrate his work by refusing to put more of it into the world?
    — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Her aching, lyrical incantations evoke eternal rhythms of loss, and consecrate the struggle.
    — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Aug. 2019
  • The result is a testament to the unique and durable power of the movies to elevate — even to consecrate — the human image.
    — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2016
  • Stories about soldiers finding ways to consecrate and celebrate their vows resonated with the team.
    — Bianca Salonga, Forbes, 8 June 2022
  • Leo will formally consecrate the tower on Wednesday night.
    — Joseph Wilson, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2026
  • Appeals to scripture become a way to baptize our bigotries and consecrate our callousness.
    — Jonathan L. Walton, Time, 22 June 2018
  • As Kuforiji began to consecrate the bread and wine, kneeling cushions creaked as worshippers pulled them down from the pews.
    — oregonlive.com, 11 Aug. 2019
  • An epiclesis is a prayer calling on the Holy Spirit to consecrate the bread and wine used in the Eucharist.
    — al, 7 Aug. 2021
  • The ground was consecrated with an all-night Maya ceremony, and the anonymous skeletons were interred above where they’d been found.
    — Natalie Keyssar, National Geographic, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Along with wooden and bronze vessels, weapons and other objects consecrated to the gods, there was also an edible waxy substance made out of dairy or meat.
    — Christian Als, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
  • The map is also the first to depict the first synagogue consecrated in North America.
    — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2017
  • The funky aroma’s still there, an earthy restorative, a chewy celebration of the morning after, a communion bowl consecrated with hot tortillas.
    — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Even if all these sunny promises are enshrined in contracts, built into budgets, and consecrated with good intentions, there are still plenty of ways the whole project could go kerflooey.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Rob practiced celebrating the Mass by draping a sheet over an ironing board in the basement and consecrating Necco wafers.
    — Paul Elie, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026
  • And a particularly symbolic ritual took place in Jerusalem today as the holy oil that will be used to anoint the new monarch and his queen consort was consecrated.
    — Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The bread to be consecrated for the Communion of the faithful should be placed on a corporal at the edge of the altar, not directly in front of the priest celebrant.
    — Madeline Mitchell, Cincinnati.com, 8 May 2020
  • Many Pentecostals, for example, fast for a period in January to consecrate the year ahead.
    — ABC News, 16 Feb. 2026
  • The museum would help consecrate Kenya’s place as both the ancient cradle of humankind and a leader in current wildlife-conservation efforts.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Pope Francis consecrated both Ukraine and Russia shortly after the start of the war in 2022.
    — Ines De La Cuetara, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2023
  • But by the year 1139, as more women were joining religious orders, bishops stopped consecrating virgins who weren’t part of those orders.
    — Ann Zaniewski, charlotteobserver, 5 July 2017
  • And of course the spires of Gaudí's Sagrada Família—recently consecrated by the Pope—continue their ascent on the horizon.
    — Andrew Ferren, ELLE Decor, 4 Apr. 2011

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