How to Use consecrated in a Sentence

consecrated

adjective
  • The site also feeds souls as a consecrated place for prayer and sweat lodges.
    — AZCentral.com, 18 Aug. 2021
  • So he had been buried in consecrated ground in Verona, Italy.
    — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 19 Mar. 2023
  • Did the secret of this avowal loiter in the breast of a consecrated virgin?
    — Cynthia Ozick, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
  • Churches are fine, but consecrated Earth is dangerous to them.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 10 June 2025
  • Catholics believe the consecrated host is truly the body and blood of Jesus — not just a symbol, but the real thing.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 12 Apr. 2022
  • The 7-year-old girl grabbed the chalice with the consecrated wine representing the blood of Christ and took a sip.
    — Alfonzo Galvan, USA TODAY, 3 May 2022
  • However, the oil miraculously burned for eight days until new consecrated oil could be found.
    — Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 16 Dec. 2025
  • But beyond these consecrated walls, continuity may depend as much on action as faith.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 21 June 2026
  • On the one hand were shrines, images, sacred objects; on the other, a fierce love of formlessness born out of a loathing of consecrated ground, idols and clergy.
    — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Those who trek from distant places to — by their very gathering — collectively acknowledge the power in the consecrated soil of these schools.
    — Charanna Alexander, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2020
  • But a welcome corrective offered by the film is the insistence that, for the faithful, whatever happens on this consecrated day matters to all the other days of the week.
    — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2023
  • In ancient Rome, the area of the pomerium was a consecrated piece of land along the city walls, where it was forbidden to farm, live or build and through which it was forbidden to enter with weapons.
    — Chron, 16 July 2021
  • The ashes are consecrated with holy water and incense before being administered.
    — Catherine Messier, The Providence Journal, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The ashes are consecrated with holy water and incense before being administered.
    — Catherine Messier, The Providence Journal, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Ann introduced herself as a consecrated pilgrim who had renounced worldly possessions.
    — Lisa Wells, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
  • The human remains will be analyzed by experts before being reburied in consecrated ground, per the publication.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Until her late 20s, Isabella had never even considered a consecrated life.
    — Lamorna Ash, The Dial, 6 May 2025
  • Whether the money came from tithes, the interest on tithes or the profit from other business ventures originally purchased with consecrated funds is irrelevant to me.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Aug. 2021
  • But, in Reynosa, there were migrants who saw the Eucharist—the consecrated bread and wine that the priests distribute at Mass—as a priority equal to any other food and drink.
    — Jack Herrera, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2024
  • In addition, Jos Valke, deacon of the church, said a letter reporting D’Artagnan’s death stated that he had been laid to rest in consecrated ground.
    — Jack Guy, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2026
  • As eye-catching as the 2025 slate of films from consecrated Catalan filmmakers is, the number of titles that will come from first-time feature directors is equally impressive.
    — Jamie Lang, Variety, 20 Sep. 2024
  • The consecrated land is leased in perpetuity to the British Royal Navy, who participate in an annual ceremony to commemorate the lives lost.
    — Caroline Eubanks, Travel + Leisure, 22 May 2026
  • Because the Catholic Church promulgated the belief that a child who died unbaptized could not be buried in consecrated ground, lay people desperate for their children to be properly laid to rest would find their own sites of significance.
    — NBC News, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Visitors who have had their fill of the beach can explore the Port Aransas Museum and Chapel on the Dunes, the oldest consecrated church on Mustang Island.
    — Gabi De La Rosa, Southern Living, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Normally, many directors attend San Sebastian with their latest films, but the number of titles from consecrated directors at this year’s festival has increased noticeably.
    — Jamie Lang, Variety, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Diving is a consecrated art, but Key struggles with her competing desire to contribute her research to the Museum of Human Memory instead of the temple in which she was raised.
    — Natalie Zutter june 30, Literary Hub, 30 June 2025
  • Lyon is the gastronomic center of France, and, around this consecrated space, the Troisgros family has controlled one restaurant after another since 1930.
    — David Denby, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
  • For instance, individuals in all kinds of situations describe being led to technical and policy solutions – often unexpected ones – through consecrated, humble prayer.
    — Lisa Rennie Sytsma, Christian Science Monitor, 20 June 2025
  • Recently listed with Savills for €36 million (about $42 million), the sprawling property doesn’t just have a grand residence but also an authentic castle, along with a consecrated 12th-century church, its own vineyard, and olive groves.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The group, which celebrates the pre-Vatican II Latin Mass, first broke with Rome in 1988, after its founder, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, consecrated four bishops without papal consent.
    — Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2026

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