Sample sentences for SACRAMENT

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an important Christian ceremony such as baptism or communion

Augustine defined a Christian sacrament as "a visible sign of an invisible reality."

The father crossed himself, nodded a scared-rabbit kind of thank you, and hurried out to report the sacrament to his wife.
Katherine Paterson -- Jacob Have I Loved
He received the sacrament with tears in his eyes.
Leo Tolstoy -- The Death of Ivan Ilych
And if we're mistaken, well! they give the sacrament to men who're unconscious, you know.'
Ivan Turgenev -- Fathers and Sons
However, she was not quite so pale, and her face had an expression of serenity as if the sacrament had cured her.
Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
If it will satisfy you, I will receive the sacrament upon it never to see his face again.
Henry Fielding -- Tom Jones
The Fifth Libation, Langdon realized, having read firsthand accounts of this sacrament in John Quincy Adams's Letters on the Masonic Institution.
Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol
No one can tell me that confession is not just as important a sacrament as communion.
John Steinbeck -- East of Eden
That her friend insisted on seeing a priest in Neuilly-sur-Seine, at the Church of the Blessed Sacrament.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity
Do; I'll take the sacrament on 't, how and which way you will.
William Shakespeare -- All's Well That Ends Well
Y'see,—some churches say that marriage is a sacrament.
Thornton Wilder -- Our Town
The Sacrament of Extreme Unction.
David Baldacci -- Wish You Well
It is their extra sacrament.
Ernest Hemingway -- For Whom the Bell Tolls
Because we have not tasted the sacrament of palm nuts?
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
Roman Catholics practice confession as a sacrament, sharing their sins and shortcomings with a priest.
Todd Burpo -- Heaven Is for Real
A person who had not taken the Sacrament according to the Anglican rite could not stand as a candidate for sheriff of London.
Mark Twain -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
On the third night, Esteban sent for the priest and amidst the enormous shadows Manuel received the sacrament, and died.
Thornton Wilder -- The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Partaking of the Sacrament.
Benjamin Franklin -- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
No; she had died for love of him, and love would always be a sacrament to him now.
Oscar Wilde -- The Picture of Dorian Gray
"As you can see, Tradd," I said, "sex is a sacrament to our Italian roommates."
Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline

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