How to Use communion in a Sentence

communion

noun
  • She went to the front of the church for Communion.
  • The glossy leaves catch the light, and suddenly, the wearer is in communion with the world around them.
    Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2023
  • Indeed, the old abbey has long served as a place of communion.
    Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Apr. 2022
  • The wheat was grown to provide flour for communion wafers.
    Jonmaesha Beltran, The Arizona Republic, 7 July 2022
  • The head of a Catholic school learns that a student had been drinking communion wine.
    Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 12 Nov. 2021
  • And with a lot of actors, for they, too, are eager for that kind of communion.
    Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The Aztec’s communion was a stew of human flesh and squash blossoms.
    Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The Aztec’s communion was a stew of human flesh and squash blossoms.
    Sam Kriss, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
  • An urban legend about a girl in a communion dress brought to the big screen in this revenge thriller.
    Emilio Mayorga, Variety, 11 Feb. 2022
  • To join the crowds and gently spread black oil on a stranger’s cheek — these moments of communion are the ethos of Carnival.
    Kristin Braswell, Travel + Leisure, 10 Feb. 2024
  • The loaf of communion bread, broken into pieces and served on trays, was enough to suffice.
    Greg Garrison | , al, 7 May 2023
  • There was a photo of one of the young girls who’d attended her first communion.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 June 2022
  • The crowd was such a surprise that there were not enough communion cups to serve grape juice to all those in attendance.
    Greg Garrison | , al, 7 May 2023
  • When our hands were too grubby to accept a stick of gum, Eva went around and placed a piece in each of our mouths like a communion wafer.
    Sonya Bennett-Brandt, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2022
  • And one of the last people that came up for communion was Marty Sinclair.
    Chicago Tribune, 13 Oct. 2022
  • To read Chekhov via Gilman is to come into communion not only with Chekhov’s soul but with Gilman’s own.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023
  • What’s most important is to be present in the moment and try to have the communion between the audience and the performer.
    Caitlin Brody, Glamour, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Yacine Tilala Fall depicts herself in communion with the earth in a black-and-white still from a performance.
    Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The communion must not go on for more than 90 seconds, or there will be dire consequences.
    Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 24 July 2023
  • People munched potato chips and sipped their beer with the sanctity of communion wafers and wine.
    Richard Morgan, Town & Country, 19 Sep. 2022
  • In the absence of real-life communion with fans at her shows, Amos learned to commune with the world around her in different ways.
    Suzy Expositostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2022
  • The communion question, at least for Mr. Biden, seemed settled.
    James Martin, WSJ, 21 July 2022
  • There's a communion service within the coronation, and that's the moment at which the monarch is anointed.
    Michael Stillwell, Town & Country, 5 Apr. 2023
  • None of the métisse girls had been baptized, nor were they invited to receive communion.
    Jocelyn C. Zuckerman, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Apr. 2023
  • But the movie still has to woo us, through the connection of its stars and the predictable-in-a-not-totally-predictable-way playing out of their communion.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Seven and a half months ago, a monk forgot to eat his prosphora after communion.
    Vladimir Sorokin, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
  • This is a horror movie purposefully set up to court both types of viewers, and very much wants to have its communion wafer and eat it, too.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2024
  • With heads bowed in prayer, hands held in communion, or eyes lifted to heaven, families give thanks for all good things.
    Kayla Bartsch, National Review, 23 Nov. 2023
  • Rooms within appear to hold a baptismal font, as well as an oven for baking bread or wafers for communion rites.
    Jon Gambrell, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Nov. 2022
  • This dispute led the two patriarchs to break full communion.
    Grayson Quay, The Week, 29 May 2022

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