How to Use confession in a Sentence

confession

noun

• I haven't gone to confession in three years.
• She went to the police station and made a full confession.
• The priest will hear confessions after mass today.
• I have a confession to make: I have never done this before.
• Send in the best confession—anonymously, of course—and the cash prize was yours.
  — Deborah Cohen, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2022
• Sitting with his wife and daughter, Mr. Khuon Khai had a confession.
  — New York Times, 16 Mar. 2022
• Some people spend time reflecting on positive memories from life, and some need to clear the air around some conflict or make some confession.
  — Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 8 Mar. 2022
• The update, made during Tuesday’s board meeting, was seen by some advocates as part job announcement, part confession.
  — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2024
• What Lana Clayton told investigators was nothing short of a confession.
  — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2022
• Popular on Variety The initial confessions are laughed off since, in the two decades since, initial crushes have faded away.
  — Jamie Lang, Variety, 7 Oct. 2024
• Washington Post columnist Christine Emba, like me, had been hearing this half-ashamed confession from her friends.
  — Jeva Lange, The Week, 22 Mar. 2022
• Coercion need not be close to torture to make any resulting confession inadmissible.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 12 Mar. 2022
• After drinking too much at a staff Christmas party, Ms. Holmes makes a confession about faking a test of her blood testing machine.
  — John Jurgensen, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2022
• It’s a heartbreaking confession made only more poignant by her inclusion of a voice message from her grandmother musing about the importance of family.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2022
• Some evidence to support Cline’s attendance at the confession, however, comes from Smith himself.
  — Jason Meisner, chicagotribune.com, 16 Mar. 2022
• That confession helped pave a path to conviction, raising questions about the constitutionality of Steele's actions.
  — Kyler Alvord, PEOPLE.com, 7 Mar. 2022
• McAdam ordered that the confession be struck from the record.
  — Vanessa Arredondo, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2023
• Turns out, the 45-year-old had her own confession to make.
  — Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 22 July 2024
• Who could forget the dumpling confession that caused Pat to bolt off the stage?
  — Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 18 May 2022
• The judge ruled Thursday the teen's confession could be used in court.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 21 June 2024
• The film accused the police of beating a confession out of Crump.
  — Adam Bernstein, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2023
• That confession was read to each jury and judge who went on to sentence Owens to death.
  — CBS News, 20 Sep. 2024
• In many towns, a shriving bell was rung to call villagers to confession.
  — Grace Linden, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023
• And then of course, there was Greer's dashcam confession.
  — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 11 May 2024
• The documents do not say what the Saudis did to elicit the confessions.
  — Justin Scheck, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2023
• Kim said in confession that the hardest part for Khloé will be losing her best friend.
  — Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 June 2022
• The boys, known as the Central Park Five, were convicted on the grounds of coerced false confessions.
  — Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 5 July 2023
• But days later, Smith's brother made a confession that blew the case wide open.
  — Christina Coulter, Fox News, 5 May 2024
• Galvin was called into the room and spent the next two hours silently recording Maria’s confession.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2022
• Hong’s characters deliver sharp dialogue that blends piercing confessions and resonant aphorisms, and his lyrical cinematography, encompassing many sequences of nature (including scenes indeed set by the stream), makes all the world their stage.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024