How to Use sacramental in a Sentence

sacramental

adjective

• In Tjukurpa law that guides Anangu life, the rocks are sacramental grounds and must not be climbed.
  — Nick Kontis, USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2018
• During the sacramental rite, a priest anointed them with oil and invoked the Holy Spirit.
  — Tim Funk, charlotteobserver, 2 June 2017
• There’s more than a hint of the Ogdoad in these two, a sacramental yet heretical consciousness.
  — Joy Williams, Harper’s Magazine , 14 Dec. 2022
• In the state of Utah, churches that serve sacramental wine as part of their communion are required by law to have a license to do so.
  — Kelly Cannon, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Oct. 2020
• In Catholic theology, the Eucharist is the sacramental presence of Christ’s own body and blood.
  — J.d. Flynn, WSJ, 22 May 2022
• This was used by the Supreme Court in 2006 to rule in favor of a church that used ayahuasca, a sacramental tea made from two plants found in the Amazonian rain forest.
  — Arit John, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2019
• Committing to a movie may have meant entering a more sacramental state of mind than committing to a few episodes of TV, but that’s no longer true.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2021
• The coat speaks of indigenous hunters’ sacramental relationship with their prey, the Osiris figure of the new life engendered by the Nile.
  — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017
• For many clergy serve as mediators of the Divine, as sacramental signs of God's love.
  — Father Edward Beck, CNN, 6 Oct. 2021
• There was something sacramental about preparing a shot and hitting a vein, then pulling the plunger back to catch a plume of blood blooming into clouds of crimson.
  — Colton Wooten, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2019
• Were all the sacramental touches — the porch, arch, nave, and aisles, with a cloister of sorts out back — a tongue-in-cheek reference to AT&T’s omnipresence in American life?
  — Curbed, 2 Nov. 2022
• Others have done away with the kiddush cup, a communal goblet of sacramental wine.
  — Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2020
• For a while, the missions’ sacramental wine was shipped up from Mexico, but pretty soon vine cuttings were bundled and sent north too.
  — Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2022
• Priests are set apart, by celibacy, by sacramental powers.
  — Garry Wills, The New York Review of Books, 29 June 2016
• And the church certainly has the sacramental tools for genuine healing and forgiveness.
  — William McGurn, WSJ, 30 July 2018
• In Paris, the Louvre Museum closed its doors and priests stopped placing sacramental bread in worshippers' mouths.
  — Author: Foster Klug, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Mar. 2020
• The abuse, the man said, occurred in sacramental confession and on outings after Hart had become bishop.
  — Judy L. Thomas, kansascity, 3 July 2018
• Christianity has at its core the humility of knowing that men are weak and in need of the sacramental grace that only God can provide. ...
  — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 6 Feb. 2023
• Where the Mass is, there is God Himself, really, truly, though under sacramental veils.
  — al, 17 Apr. 2020
• In this way, even humble tasks can become a sacramental gesture, sanctified by the divine.
  — Danny Heitman, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Oct. 2017
• To break an egg into a saucer and slide it into gently simmering water is sacramental.
  — NBC News, 19 Oct. 2019
• That might be due to the solemnity of the memorial’s design or the explicit border between this sacramental zone and the profane city beyond.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 31 Aug. 2021
• Put on your Sunday finest and enjoy some sacramental frothin’ sangria.
  — Lisa Herendeen, The Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2019
• Murderers want to be found out as sinners want to confess; the religious function of confession and sacramental forgiveness has simply been passed to the organs of the state.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2022
• These quasi-beliefs fed into his work and nourished it, imbuing many paintings, sculptures, and etchings with a kind of sacramental savagery.
  — John Banville, The New Republic, 16 Nov. 2021
• When Corbett arrived in 2005, his long hair, black leather jacket, penchant to drink more than sacramental wine and fluency in port patois endeared him to dockworkers.
  — Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2021
• There are no processions or recessions, and during Holy Communion priests do not serve sacramental wine.
  — James Estrin, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2020
• Bishop Michel Aupetit instructed that priests no longer put the sacramental bread in the mouths of worshippers celebrating communion and instead place it in their hands.
  — oregonlive, 29 Feb. 2020
• Holy Communion will continue in the Norwich Diocese, however people are encouraged to receive the sacramental bread, which represents the body of Christ, in their hands instead of on the tongue.
  — Ken Byron, courant.com, 30 Jan. 2018
• This includes fish fries, bingo and other parish social, athletic or other non-liturgical or non-sacramental events of over 100 people.
  — Laura Demarco, cleveland, 13 Mar. 2020

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024