How to Use crucifixion in a Sentence

crucifixion

noun
  • The work as a whole depicts the passion of Christ as well as his crucifixion.
    — Melissa Locker, Time, 24 Sep. 2019
  • The play opens with a dead dog, pitch-forked at center stage like an inverted crucifixion.
    — Steve Mannheimer, Indianapolis Star, 26 Sep. 2017
  • On the third day after his crucifixion, Jesus arose from the dead.
    — CNN, 18 Aug. 2021
  • But when he’s later affixed to a cross, those same people gather to cheer on his crucifixion.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2024
  • His head is covered and his bare feet are sticking out -- displaying the wounds from his crucifixion.
    — David Williams, CNN, 16 Oct. 2020
  • As Jesus’ body bore the marks of his crucifixion, so does the church bear the wounds of sin, Blair said.
    — Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 1 May 2024
  • Nails from tombs and crucifixions were sometimes even worn around the neck as talismans against fevers, malaria and evil spells.
    — Franz Lidz, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2023
  • The work dates all the way back to 1280 and depicts Christ's crucifixion.
    — Elizabeth Gulino, House Beautiful, 28 Oct. 2019
  • The one on the right was dark, as though the crucifixion had taken place not on a hill but in a cave, the light streaming in from a crack in the surface of the earth.
    — Wyatt Mason, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2017
  • Relics, such as a crown of thorns believed to be worn by Jesus Christ during his crucifixion, were saved from the fire.
    — Eleanor Beardsley, NPR, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Part of the power of the Easter story is in what happened after the crucifixion.
    — John Blake, CNN, 17 Apr. 2022
  • The cloth contains a faint image of a man with long hair, a beard and crucifixion wounds consistent with Jesus’ death.
    — Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The Crown of Thorns is purported to be the one placed on the head of Jesus at his crucifixion.
    — Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2019
  • There's no mass on Good Friday, but instead a liturgy focused on the crucifixion.
    — Elijah Westbrook, CBS News, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The 10-by-8-inch work is part of a diptych made up of eight scenes centered on the passion and crucifixion of Christ.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The spiky leaves have long been a symbol in Christianity of the thorny crown placed on Jesus's head at his crucifixion.
    — Samantha Lawyer, Woman's Day, 2 Feb. 2023
  • The obvious answer is the entire passage on the crucifixion.
    — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The author had watched the crucifixion of Boris Pasternak with great interest.
    — Aaron Lake Smith, Harper's magazine, 24 June 2019
  • The Gospel of Mark describes how Jesus was mocked as he was clothed in purple robes before crucifixion.
    — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
  • So many of the doctors who write about sweating blood refer to the description of Christ sweating blood before the crucifixion.
    — Susan Scutti, CNN, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Prior to that, the authors said, the church had taught that Jews were responsible for Christ’s crucifixion.
    — Marc A Ramirez, USA TODAY, 11 June 2024
  • All eight episodes take place during Holy Week, the final week leading up to Jesus’s crucifixion.
    — Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025
  • The comic’s name is a reference to Golgotha, the site of Christ’s crucifixion.
    — New York Times, 1 Oct. 2021
  • The couple is shown in the bottom panel, beneath the crucifixion of Jesus, offering the window as a gift.
    — Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2021
  • The cloth, bearing an image of a naked man with long hair and a beard, as well as reddish-brown stains resembling wounds from crucifixion, quickly became popular.
    — Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
  • But one of the best ways to mark his crucifixion, which fell three days before Easter, just might be by sharing Good Friday scriptures.
    — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 7 Apr. 2023
  • With a handful of followers, the two board a boat fourteen years after Jesus’ crucifixion and land on the southern coast of France.
    — Eliza Griswold, New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2025
  • There is also the fact that there were 13 people present at the Last Supper the day before Christ’s crucifixion.
    — Leada Gore | [email protected], al, 13 Nov. 2020
  • The show still focuses on the week leading up to the crucifixion of Jesus as seen through the eyes of Judas, the disciple who betrayed him.
    — cleveland, 27 Jan. 2022
  • The crown of thorns, said to be the wreath placed on Jesus Christ’s head during his crucifixion, and one of the cathedral’s most sacred items, will sit in a sparkling reliquary.
    — Keir Simmons, NBC News, 29 Nov. 2024

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