How to Use sermon in a Sentence

sermon

noun

• He preached a sermon on the importance of kindness.
• Dad gave me a sermon yesterday about doing my homework.
• Mackenzie sang in the choir and gave guest sermons as a child.
  — Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
• Moshfegh doesn’t owe us a tidy sermon in the shape of a novel.
  — Jess Bergman, The New Republic, 22 June 2022
• Toward the end of the sermon, the reverend looked again toward the sky as the rain had begun.
  — Alex Putterman, Hartford Courant, 9 Apr. 2022
• The sermon is over but the revival is not quite finished yet.
  — Evan Dudley, al, 19 Mar. 2022
• There’s no Sinai in The High Sierra and no mount from which a sermon is being preached.
  — Verlyn Klinkenborg, The Atlantic, 21 July 2022
• The priest read from Luke and gave a sermon about compassion.
  — Sally Rooney, The New Yorker, 5 July 2021
• Curry is not afraid to put himself in the sermon — or his whole body.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2022
• In one instance, she was said to have had an outburst in the middle of a sermon.
  — Christopher Moyer, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2021
• Consider this excerpt from the first sermon in the book.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2022
• The minister called him to the front of the church after the sermon to introduce him to the lawmaker.
  — Ken Tran, USA TODAY, 27 Aug. 2023
• On March 21, hours before the murder, the pastor gave a sermon about the devil.
  — Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2021
• Biden’s speech on voting rights was a sermon, not a battle plan.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2021
• And the worst part is most people around me were applauding his garbage sermon.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 24 Aug. 2023
• The speaker is moved by the religious space more than the sermon delivered in it.
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2023
• The sermon needs to be preached, but is anybody listening?
  — Chicago Tribune, 4 Nov. 2022
• That speech to Jasmine in Untucked was so moving and felt like a sermon.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 28 Feb. 2022
• Geordie missed Will’s teary-eyed last sermon and emotional farewells with Mrs. C and Leonard.
  — Mandi Bierly, TVLine, 23 June 2024
• In the fall of 2020, Kevin Thompson delivered a sermon about the gentleness of God.
  — New York Times, 9 May 2022
• The rabbi’s sermon on this subject never made any sense to me.
  — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2021
• Pearson resigned in May and preached his last sermon on May 16.
  — al, 7 Aug. 2021
• Rider said his mom told him the message of a church sermon about helping the homeless.
  — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 24 Nov. 2021
• The day begins with a special prayer service known as salat al-eid followed by a sermon from the imam.
  — Juliana Labianca, Good Housekeeping, 26 Jan. 2023
• The smash hit is an easy, breezy sermon of good vibes and a convincing promise of a stress-free future.
  — Natalie Maher, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 May 2021
• George Mason, who had been in his role since 1989, had his last sermon as pastor this past spring.
  — Dallas News, 6 Dec. 2022
• The sermon is meant to inspire people in their ordinary lives of faith.
  — Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 6 July 2023
• Karen Bak listened patiently to the Advent sermon, then held up her hands for the Lord’s Prayer.
  — Ariel Zambelich, WSJ, 15 Jan. 2024
• The Buddha’s first sermon also described the Middle Way: a balance between the extremes of asceticism and indulgence.
  — Shayla Love, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2024
• When Yaa attended his crusade, she was impressed by his sermons, which promised that the apocalypse would bring believers eternal bliss.
  — Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024