How to Use crucify in a Sentence

crucify

verb

• They crucified her in the newspapers for having an affair.
• Good Friday is the day Christians say Jesus Christ was crucified on the cross and died for the sins of the world.
  — The Aegis, 30 Mar. 2018
• Unless he is known as the one who had himself crucified (nailed through the hands to the roof of a Volkswagen).
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 19 May 2017
• Palm Sunday is the start of Holy Week, in which Jesus was betrayed, tried, and crucified.
  — Marie Milano, Country Living, 8 Mar. 2019
• If Sarah Palin said something like that, the media would have crucified...
  — WSJ, 7 Apr. 2017
• Jesus is then crucified (nailed to a cross alive), the death of a common criminal.
  — National Geographic, 9 Apr. 2020
• The church is revered as the site where Jesus was crucified and resurrected.
  — Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2018
• Gaga literally crucified herself on stage to tell the world this—and stop it.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 17 Aug. 2018
• The Way of the Cross procession evokes Jesus suffering on his way to be crucified.
  — NBC News, 11 Apr. 2020
• Throughout the Bible there are many references to the day he was arrested for claiming to be the son of God, beaten and crucified.
  — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 7 Apr. 2023
• According to the Gospel of Luke, Jesus was crucified with two criminals, one on each side of him.
  — Greg Garrison | , al, 10 Apr. 2023
• The Jerusalem church, built on the site where Christians believe Jesus was crucified, buried and rose from the dead, is usually packed with pilgrims and tourists.
  — Joseph Krauss and Elana Schor, Houston Chronicle, 10 Apr. 2020
• The centuries-old church, built on the site where Christians believe Jesus was crucified, buried and rose from the dead, is usually packed.
  — Kurtis Lee, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2020
• These left wing loons crucified and slandered him over words that offended them.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 11 Apr. 2018
• The monk' palms had bled inexplicably for decades like the wounds of crucified Jesus.
  — Fox News, 17 Mar. 2018
• In the original, Herod mocks and goads Jesus before sending him back to be crucified.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 29 Aug. 2019
• In 2012, the singer was publicly crucified for her decision to get back together with Brown.
  — Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2018
• The centuries-old church, built on the site where Christians believe Jesus was crucified, buried, and rose from the dead, is usually packed with pilgrims and tourists.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Apr. 2020
• One where Christians stop confusing the power to crucify with the power of the Crucified One.
  — TIME, 5 Jan. 2024
• Anyone who did cross the line ended up getting crucified.
  — Hayes Gardner, The Courier-Journal, 23 Apr. 2020
• In the days and weeks after the finale aired, he was digitally crucified on Twitter.
  — Rebecca Nelson, GQ, 27 May 2018
• Christ is crucified when thousands of babies worldwide are destroyed every day in the womb.
  — Atlanta Life, ajc, 23 Mar. 2018
• This was a forbidden question for the Crusaders, who believed that in crucifying Jesus the Jews had turned their backs on God.
  — John Kaag, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2018
• The religious relic, believed by some to be a fragment of the cross on which Christ was crucified, was given to the King by Pope Francis to mark his coronation.
  — Hafsa Khalil, CNN, 19 Apr. 2023
• Nazaryan seemingly was trying to crucify the author rather than giving a solid review of the book.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2021
• Supposedly built on top of the spot where Jesus Christ was crucified and three days later rose from the dead, the domed cathedral is the holiest site in Christendom.
  — Chris Nashawaty, WIRED, 17 Feb. 2012
• As if that is in some kind of way equitable to betraying our Lord and delivering him up to be crucified.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 5 Jan. 2024
• The Cross of Wales, as it's called, features two splinters reportedly taken from the cross Jesus was crucified on 2,000 years ago.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 19 Apr. 2023
• Behind him was a blinking router balanced on the base of a cross with a tiny crucified Jesus and a golden statue of Our Lady of Fatima.
  — Alice Driver, Longreads, 30 June 2017
• Scarecrows, crucified across makeshift crosses, stood erected, pumpkins were piled, but trees were still green.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 8 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024