How to Use sacramental in a Sentence

sacramental

adjective
  • With the dead and the wounded sprawled around them, the mocambos gulped the wine from the sacramental chalice.
    — Literary Hub, 19 Mar. 2026
  • In Tjukurpa law that guides Anangu life, the rocks are sacramental grounds and must not be climbed.
    — Nick Kontis, USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Others have done away with the kiddush cup, a communal goblet of sacramental wine.
    — Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2020
  • With light slanting in from a row of windows eight stories above the floor, and an immense vault above, the drill hall has a sacramental feel.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 10 Feb. 2026
  • There is something sacramental about the whole arrangement.
    — Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 15 Dec. 2025
  • There’s more than a hint of the Ogdoad in these two, a sacramental yet heretical consciousness.
    — Joy Williams, Harper’s Magazine , 14 Dec. 2022
  • To break an egg into a saucer and slide it into gently simmering water is sacramental.
    — NBC News, 19 Oct. 2019
  • Put on your Sunday finest and enjoy some sacramental frothin’ sangria.
    — Lisa Herendeen, The Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2019
  • In this way, even humble tasks can become a sacramental gesture, sanctified by the divine.
    — Danny Heitman, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Oct. 2017
  • During the sacramental rite, a priest anointed them with oil and invoked the Holy Spirit.
    — Tim Funk, charlotteobserver, 2 June 2017
  • In the state of Utah, churches that serve sacramental wine as part of their communion are required by law to have a license to do so.
    — Kelly Cannon, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Oct. 2020
  • And the church certainly has the sacramental tools for genuine healing and forgiveness.
    — William McGurn, WSJ, 30 July 2018
  • The sacramental palms can be kept at home and returned to church or nature, but should not to be thrown away, the Archdiocese noted.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 23 Mar. 2026
  • There was something sacramental about preparing a shot and hitting a vein, then pulling the plunger back to catch a plume of blood blooming into clouds of crimson.
    — Colton Wooten, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2019
  • For many clergy serve as mediators of the Divine, as sacramental signs of God's love.
    — Father Edward Beck, CNN, 6 Oct. 2021
  • For a while, the missions’ sacramental wine was shipped up from Mexico, but pretty soon vine cuttings were bundled and sent north too.
    — Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2022
  • The abuse, the man said, occurred in sacramental confession and on outings after Hart had become bishop.
    — Judy L. Thomas, kansascity, 3 July 2018
  • These quasi-beliefs fed into his work and nourished it, imbuing many paintings, sculptures, and etchings with a kind of sacramental savagery.
    — John Banville, The New Republic, 16 Nov. 2021
  • Committing to a movie may have meant entering a more sacramental state of mind than committing to a few episodes of TV, but that’s no longer true.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2021
  • In Catholic theology, the Eucharist is the sacramental presence of Christ’s own body and blood.
    — J.d. Flynn, WSJ, 22 May 2022
  • In some cases priests used sacramental objects as props for their diabolical predations.
    — C.c. Pecknold, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2018
  • Where the Mass is, there is God Himself, really, truly, though under sacramental veils.
    — al, 17 Apr. 2020
  • That might be due to the solemnity of the memorial’s design or the explicit border between this sacramental zone and the profane city beyond.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Either way, the installation was not meant to replace sacramental confession.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025
  • There are no processions or recessions, and during Holy Communion priests do not serve sacramental wine.
    — James Estrin, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2020
  • In Paris, the Louvre Museum closed its doors and priests stopped placing sacramental bread in worshippers' mouths.
    — Author: Foster Klug, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Mar. 2020
  • Something has changed, not in church law or doctrine but in moral theology and the pastoral application of sacramental discipline.
    — Massimo Faggioli, Foreign Affairs, 30 Nov. 2018
  • The coat speaks of indigenous hunters’ sacramental relationship with their prey, the Osiris figure of the new life engendered by the Nile.
    — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017
  • If sacramental wine became the blood of Christian children, an evil kind of transubstantiation occurred.
    — Talia Lavin, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2020
  • Murderers want to be found out as sinners want to confess; the religious function of confession and sacramental forgiveness has simply been passed to the organs of the state.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2022

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