How to Use sacrament in a Sentence

sacrament

noun
  • They stood in line to receive the Sacrament.
  • Who cared about popes and sacraments?
    — Kate Crane, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Sacrament is a lovely word to say aloud.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
  • In the end, helping her mother end her life felt like a sacrament.
    — Tara Bahrampour, Twin Cities, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Don’t lead with anything that sounds like a preachy sacrament meeting talk.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 June 2022
  • The group ate that fish for dinner the night after the dives — like a sacrament.
    — ABC News, 14 May 2026
  • The angel who taught church founder Joseph Smith about the sacrament.
    — David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Apr. 2021
  • There are menorahs now on the edges of the inlet where a priest would prepare a sacrament.
    — Anna Deforest, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
  • The pope’s ancestor had received her first sacrament in the same font that is still in the back of the church.
    — Rick Rojas, New York Times, 10 May 2025
  • Most customers who order our sacrament trays think her husband made them, the woman said.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Dill’s father is a preacher, and his church embraces snake handling as a sacrament.
    — Carrie Rollwagon, Southern Living, 7 Dec. 2016
  • The sacrament is a means to our true end, which is union with Christ and, therefore, union with God.
    — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 7 Apr. 2020
  • The idea that current law is sacrament ignores the fact that Congress changes the law all the time.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2019
  • But what holds me up outside the church is the feeling not of sacrament but sanctimony.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 17 Mar. 2026
  • The mistake goes beyond baptism, the first Catholic sacrament.
    — Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Blessings are signposts to the sacraments, not substitutes for them.
    — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 24 Dec. 2023
  • Through a friend, my mom got a meeting with a priest, who handed her a stack of paperwork to homeschool me on the sacrament.
    — Sara Eckel, Longreads, 1 June 2018
  • The school was also barred from celebrating Mass and the sacraments.
    — Deanna Pan, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Baptism has its rightful place and purpose as a Christian sacrament.
    — Alistair Budd, Christian Science Monitor, 11 July 2025
  • Thus, any change in who's able to receive the sacrament is up to the individual parishes.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 11 Feb. 2020
  • In the Catholic faith, the last rites are a sacrament preparing a person to enter heaven.
    — Star Tribune, 5 Dec. 2020
  • The Catholic sacrament of Communion will be available to those at the arena.
    — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 14 June 2024
  • The liturgy will use holy oils used in sacraments throughout the year that have been blessed as priests of the diocese renew priestly promises.
    — Post-Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Only priests could baptize, ordain, perform the sacrament of the Eucharist and give last rites.
    — Lisa Bitel, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Mar. 2022
  • In Catholicism, confession is one of the seven sacraments.
    — Corky Siemaszko, NBC news, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The story centers on a priest who performs last rites at a hospital and one day, gives sacraments to a dying patient.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 July 2024
  • At least one priest holds up to five masses each Sunday, strapping on a flak jacket and driving the sacrament from church to church.
    — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 28 June 2022
  • The ‘waters of baptism’ is the first sacrament that initiates someone into the life of Christ.
    — Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 12 Mar. 2023
  • The approach requires no priest, no holy sacrament, no one to intercede with God on the person’s behalf.
    — Dan Horn, The Enquirer, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The parish has increased the availability of the sacrament of confession in recent years and has seen a good response to it.
    — Mary Schneidau Sullivan, Laurel Leader, 19 Apr. 2018

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