How to Use deadly sin in a Sentence

deadly sin

noun
  • Envy is one of the seven deadly sins.
    — John Blake, CNN Money, 14 Dec. 2025
  • But, she wasn’t named for the seven deadly sins, either, so that’s a plus.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Some denounce the use of sugar as the 13th deadly sin.
    — Josh Miller, Southern Living, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Some of the restaurant’s pizzas are named after the seven deadly sins.
    — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 1 June 2023
  • Sloth, after all, is a deadly sin, and it was often seen as the first step on the slippery slope to perdition.
    — JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Molesworth, along with other art world figures, was asked to comment on one of the seven deadly sins in today’s era.
    — Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 12 June 2026
  • Previous tours have included a riff on the seven deadly sins.
    — Lawrence Specker | [email protected], al, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Amongst the revelers were a group of seven deadly sins and a couple of Queen of Hearts.
    — Vogue, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Allen was too inaccurate in college, a deadly sin that rarely improves, the thinking went.
    — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 29 Sep. 2021
  • The campaign brings to life the seven deadly sins; pride, wrath, envy, indolence, gourmand, greed, and lust.
    — Nandi Howard, Essence, 16 Oct. 2019
  • Money and jealousy are the root of the play’s evils, with more deadly sins released in a world of posh, uppity arrogance.
    — David John Chávez, Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The car is green, so any interior color other than brown should be considered one of the seven deadly sins.
    — Car and Driver, 25 Apr. 2020
  • During the seven deadly sins photoshoot, the model was assigned to portray the sin of gluttony.
    — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Not to mention comparing Pride month to a 'deadly sin' and lobbing bombs at the trans community.
    — Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 16 May 2024
  • Yet the tone betrays neither effort nor arrogance — pride being a deadly sin for comedy.
    — Teo Bugbee, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2018
  • In the Puritan West, the pursuit of beauty in dress has almost always been linked to the deadly sin of pride.
    — New York Times, 14 July 2021
  • In the 1995 crime thriller, Spacey plays a murderer inspired by the seven deadly sins.
    — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 3 July 2023
  • It was based on the 14th-Century’s seven deadly sins, and sent chills down the spines of viewers and critics alike.
    — Josh Linkner, Detroit Free Press, 21 Apr. 2018
  • The photoshoot was themed around the seven deadly sins, with Rondot being assigned to portray wrath.
    — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Angels oversee the shepherds on their journey to protect them from the devil’s influence and the seven deadly sins.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Along the way, the shepherds face temptations that are presented to them by the devil in the shape of the seven deadly sins, such as gluttony, sloth, and greed.
    — Paula Soria, AZCentral.com, 17 Dec. 2025
  • Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives.
    — Ben Flanagan | [email protected], al, 16 Oct. 2019
  • Sloths have been maligned throughout history, with their name becoming synonymous with laziness (and even labeled a deadly sin).
    — Darren Incorvaia, Discover Magazine, 12 Apr. 2022
  • And so the first domino falls in a trail that will eventually lead to multiple crimes, uncountable misdemeanors, and at least six of the seven deadly sins.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 24 Apr. 2020
  • In the medieval period, prescriptive literature warned women of the dangers of anger—one of the seven deadly sins.
    — Pragya Agarwal, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Mar. 2024
  • There were also seven different rooms representing the seven deadly sins.
    — Datwon Thomas, VIBE.com, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Any person of real moral fiber would not stand idle as people die from the cruelty of an imbecilic bigot whose moral compass mirrors the seven deadly sins.
    — Michael Arceneaux, The Root, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Around the same time, the Christian church formally added sloth as one of the seven deadly sins, vices believed to be spiritually fatal.
    — Nicole Hong, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2017
  • Tracy is murdered by John Doe (Kevin Spacey), a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins to pick victims.
    — Ryan Parker, Billboard, 30 Oct. 2017
  • Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman are mismatched detectives on the hunt for a madman enacting crimes in the style of the seven deadly sins.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026

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