How to Use last rites in a Sentence

last rites

noun

• The priest came on a Tuesday evening, to give Deus the last rites.
  — Eric Boodman, STAT, 30 June 2020
• The priest had already been there to read Brase his last rites.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Apr. 2021
• There is talk in the town of a new club, a phoenix team, arising once old Bury’s last rites are read.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2019
• This term, even the process of giving last rites has raised tempers.
  — Richard Wolf, USA TODAY, 9 June 2019
• Fifth sprang to life a month ago, but only to perform last rites.
  — James Lileks, Star Tribune, 25 June 2021
• At one point, a priest came to give them last rites, frightening Klare’s friend.
  — Madeline Buckley, Chicago Tribune, 27 Sep. 2022
• And there is the sacristy box, which a priest used in 1948 to give the last rites to Babe Ruth (who died nearly a month later).
  — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2020
• One of the caregivers had brought in his iPad, and a Catholic priest delivered his last rites from miles away.
  — Ryan Kost, SFChronicle.com, 22 Apr. 2020
• All that remained was for the reporters and anchors to trek out to Wyoming and perform last rites.
  — Howard Kurtz, Fox News, 18 Aug. 2022
• There were logistics to take care of — find people to take away the body, figure a way to do last rites.
  — Washington Post, 24 May 2021
• Most of the role is him as a corpse, and camera angles keep his face mostly hidden all the way through the last rites scene.
  — Ed Symkus, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2018
• The steakhouse owner was given a 5% chance of survival and was read his last rites.
  — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 4 Jan. 2023
• And gave last rites to the first New York City firefighter who was killed that day, before the towers fell.
  — CBS News, 11 Sep. 2019
• Joe and Shina received the final Catholic sacraments of last rites from a priest.
  — Ethan May, The Indianapolis Star, 16 June 2020
• He was given the last rites by a local priest and was only saved by the first penicillin shipments that reached Italy.
  — Reagan Alexander, PEOPLE.com, 13 June 2019
• In the Catholic faith, the last rites are a sacrament preparing a person to enter heaven.
  — Star Tribune, 5 Dec. 2020
• The next president of the Eurogroup has the task of making the body relevant again, or reading its last rites.
  — The Economist, 20 June 2020
• If a club overextends itself to the point of bankruptcy, then there is a time when the financial last rites have to be read.
  — Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 27 Aug. 2019
• Mourners gathered across towns and cities in India to bid farewell to the soldiers whose bodies were brought back home for last rites.
  — Rajesh Roy, WSJ, 18 June 2020
• Days after that, Apfel heard Cement Head had gotten last rites.
  — STAT, 14 Apr. 2021
• Cathedral in New York to administer last rites to a dying Babe Ruth in 1948?
  — New York Times, 31 July 2022
• In 1745, for instance, priests said last rites for Conepunda, a Sifame Indian child.
  — New York Times, 25 Nov. 2021
• Only priests could baptize, ordain, perform the sacrament of the Eucharist and give last rites.
  — Lisa Bitel, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Mar. 2022
• That means the patient inside has received last rites from a Catholic priest, and is not expected to survive.
  — NBC News, 6 Dec. 2021
• The wound was serious enough that a priest arrived to perform last rites while Joe was waiting for the ambulance.
  — Bruce Weber, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2023
• Ford's rival, General Motors, isn't ready to call for last rites.
  — Eric D. Lawrence, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2018
• Nearly everywhere, the bereaved have put up with rip-off last rites because of the lack of better options.
  — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
• Follis was given her last rites twice, and her family was told to gather to say goodbye.
  — Alexandria Hein, Fox News, 20 Apr. 2018
• When a priest arrives at a hospital in Chorzow to perform the last rites, nurse Mariusz Strug can see the fear in dying patients' eyes.
  — Vanessa Gera, ajc, 24 Sep. 2021
• In some instances, the company even sent chaplains to lie to the patients and discuss last rites and Mesquias fired employees who refused to go along with the scheme.
  — Laura Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 24 Dec. 2020

Last Updated: 9 Aug 2024