How to Use the Sabbath in a Sentence

the Sabbath

noun
  • On the other hand, this is a book about the Sabbath.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
    — Lina Ruiz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Kirk obviously didn’t mean for a book about the Sabbath to comprise his last words.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Since this would have violated the Sabbath, he was told the event would be rescheduled.
    — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Kirk began keeping the Sabbath in 2021.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2025
  • The islands are home to a very conservative branch of Calvinism which believes deeply in the Sabbath.
    — Cressida Leyshon, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Americans, religious or not, kept the Sabbath for centuries.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2025
  • After Freud’s death, Bernays went back to the synagogue and back to lighting candles on the Sabbath.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The family keeps kosher, observes the Sabbath and attends synagogue.
    — Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 1 May 2026
  • In the Jewish religion, working on the Sabbath is prohibited—which includes lighting a fire.
    — Lea Donenberg, Vogue, 19 Dec. 2025
  • As of Friday evening, Israel had not formally responded, citing the Sabbath.
    — Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • One celebrates the beauty and moral uplift of the Sabbath; the other denounces the immorality of the godless in the fiery manner of a tent-revival preacher.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2025
  • And for those who could afford it, back in the old country, brisket was served on the Sabbath or holidays, wrapping it in loving memories of family and community.
    — Judy Bart Kancigor, Oc Register, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The meal, which could be made in advance in bean pots and kept warm in brick ovens, allowed the new arrivals to observe the Sabbath by not working and soon became a Sunday staple, served with brown bread.
    — Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 June 2026
  • Sabbatarianism is the doctrine of the Sabbath—the day of the week when, according to the Bible, humankind is commanded to rest, meaning, mostly, not to work.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2025
  • But his turn toward the Sabbath took him in an unexpected direction, and the book contains evidence of genuine spiritual struggle, which is the best testament a man of faith can leave.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2025
  • In the quiet of the Sabbath morning when all the neighborhood was wrapped in slumber, some dastardly degenerate crept into the room, choked her to death, assaulted her criminally and left her bruised and bleeding body lying on the bed.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Blue laws, or Sunday-closing mandates that decreed a 24-hour pause from most work and commerce, were a legacy of the Puritans, who believed in keeping the Sabbath as stringently as possible.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2025
  • The restaurant, which opened in February 2025 and is closed on Fridays and Saturdays in honor of the Sabbath, reinvents classic kosher cuisine with rich flavors and a fierce farm-to-table mentality.
    — Connie Ogle updated May 28, Miami Herald, 28 May 2026
  • At some point following the Christian revelation in the New Testament the decision was taken in heaven to change the day of the Sabbath from the Jewish Saturday to the Christian Sunday.
    — JSTOR Daily, 16 Oct. 2025

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