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How to use bless in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, interjection

Bless means to make something holy by religious rite, sanctify. Example: “In some countries, priests bless farm animals on St. Anthony's Day.”

Examples of bless by meaning

verbTo invoke divine favor upon.

  • In some countries, priests bless farm animals on St. Anthony's Day.
  • In many families, a grace is said before dinner to give thanks for and bless the food.

verbTo give or send.

  • Could you bless me the link for the original post?
  • I'm actually marved right now, can you bless me some cash?
  • Ahlie fam ¶ Do u have grabba? ¶ Bless me a change for the ttc2021 April 13, u/saltymotherfker, “Popular male in a Toronto high school starterpack”, in Reddit, r/starterpacks, archived from the...

verbTo approve of or assent to.

  • After those modifications, the Board blessed the reorganization plan.

verbTo perform the mano gesture; taking of an elder's hand to press it to one's forehead or kiss it (as a sign of respect).

  • You should bless your relatives, because they arrived here already.

More sentences with bless

  • I heard you helped them with clearing away the downed tree. God bless you! The Lord provides!From the entry God bless you
  • My dog can't fit in her puppy bed anymore, but she still tries, bless her heart.From the entry bless someone's heart
  • You got that whole area cleaned up in one day? God bless you! I'll buy your coffee today!From the entry God bless you
  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:bless someone's cotton socks.From the entry bless someone's cotton socks
  • Hey, could you bless me with some cash?From the entry bless someone with
  • They're having a hard time getting used to the food down here. They don't like grits — bless their hearts, they don't even like sweet tea.From the entry bless someone's heart
  • Hashem should bless us with a mazaldik voch, a lichtigeh voch a geztuntike voch.2022 May 28, Thank You Hashem Nation, archived from the original on 25 Mar 2023. From the entry mazaldik
  • TikTok has really shined a light on the wide array of magnificent females that bless this earth.2020 July 26, Daniella Emanuel, Angelica Martinez, “If You Check Off More Than Half The Things On This List, You're A "Bruh" Girl”, in…. From the entry bruh girl
  • I praise Him today for He is a Father who loves to bless His children.2018, Lorraine Smith, Good Morning! This is God.... From the entry kazillion
  • When you generously, open-heartedly bless someone who has hurt or harmed you, incredible divine alchemy takes place.2015, Diana Cooper, Tim Whild, The Archangel Guide to Ascension: 55 Steps to the Light, →ISBN. From the entry open-heartedly
  • I think he's trying to smash the land speed record, bless him.2014, Sally Wainwright, 1:49 from the start, in Happy Valley, season 1, episode 3, spoken by Kirsten McAskill (Sophie Rundle). From the entry tranny
  • Ps-This is all up to you, Gods bless you —you have the potential to make to happen.2009, Richard Walsh, True Jersey City Story: Super Proud Dad 14 Years of Motivational Letters, AuthorHouse, page 161. From the entry gods bless you
  • After which I bless God you are having such a plenty of teas and company.2009, William Carlos Williams, Andrew Krivak, The Letters of William Carlos Williams to Edgar Irving Williams, 1902-1912, page 291. From the entry teaish
  • To wood-elf and field-elf I pour out this greeting, And bid you bless this holy rite.1999, Thunder, issue 11, Ceremony for the Handfasting of Dragon Earthson and Thorskegga Thorn (Math Jones). From the entry wood-elf
  • The newly-weds then bow down twice to all her patrilineal relatives who bless them in return.1998, Michael Vinding, The Thakali: A Himalayan Ethnography, page 232. From the entry newly-wed
  • The goddess blesses him by placing his liṅgam in her yoni.1997, David R Kinsley, Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine, University of California, published 1997, page 235. From the entry yoni
  • During the High Holiday services, the Kohanim (who are the priests) bless those in attendance.1995-10, Leonard Nimoy, “Vulcanalia or The Vulcan Grows Up”, in I Am Spock, New York, N.Y.: Hyperion, →ISBN, pages 67–68. From the entry Vulcan salute
  • Bless ’em all, bless ’em all, the long, the short and the tall.1940, Fred Godfrey, “Bless 'Em All”performed by George Formby. From the entry long
  • God bless my cotton socks, Pasta'll cut her liver out for that⸺Herp!1936, Gerald Kersh, Men are So Ardent, W. Morrow, page 120. From the entry bless my cotton socks
  • Some such retransfiguration of things that had sunk into triteness blesses the fortunate holidaymaker.1929, Charles Edward Montague, The Right Place, Chatto and Windus, page 14. From the entry retransfiguration
  • “Der Kronprinz (God bless his noble heart!) will walk through, and goose-step all the way to Paris.”1917, Aleister Crowley, Moonchild, Weiser, published 2010, page 328. From the entry goose-step
  • But, Lord bless you, give them a chance—you'll find some of the greatest the greediest.1901, Henry James, The Papers. From the entry work the oracle
  • As CBC’s Wawmeesh Hamilton reports, delegates from the Nisg̱a'a Nation got together to bless the pole before it started the journey.2025 September 29, “Century-old Nisg̱a'a totem pole appears to awaken ahead of journey home”, in CBC News. From the entry Nisg̱a'a
  • A terrible man for falling in love, God bless him!2024 January 2, St. John G. Ervine, The Foolish Lovers, BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, page 11. From the entry terrible
  • My Dad, God bless him, rarely cooked anything, but if he ever did he would make himself an egg banjo!2020 May 29, Bocca della Verita (@BocaVerite), Twitter. From the entry dip
  • It's not the helo's fault, even if it is clunkier than a stumblebum old poke of a plow horse—bless its rotors.2019, M. L. Buchman, At the Slightest Sound. From the entry poke
  • Bless yourself today with the gift of forgiveness.2014, Dr. Gwendolyn Pettway, DCC, FRESH BEGINNINGS: The Breakthrough Devotional for Emotional Healing, Outskirts Press, →ISBN, page 12. From the entry bless oneself
  • Cynical, and just a little soap-dodging, bless them.2014, Rebecca Chance, Bad Brides. From the entry soap-dodging
  • The whole Ojito Nation’s with you, bother of my soul and heart, gods bless you—oh, gods bless you, Jackie!”2009, Jeffrey A. Friedberg, Black Road 2012, INDI, page 179. From the entry gods bless you
  • Why, bless you, I can move neither hand nor foot!2001, Ambrose Bierce, David E. Schultz, S. T. Joshi, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary, page 256. From the entry unspike
  • Unless you are another Schwarzenegger, or you have a doctorate in muscle growth, forget the heavy mob, (bless 'em).2000, Lou Ravelle, Gym Biz: Starting and Running Your Own Gym for Profit, page 8. From the entry Schwarzenegger
  • By the grace of this double negative may they bless its existence in the best way they know.1985, Mary Daly, Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation, page 12. From the entry unacknowledge
  • But we're no forrarder, are we, bless us?1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 168. From the entry forrarder

Meaning of bless

  1. verb To make something holy by religious rite, sanctify.
  2. verb To invoke divine favor upon.
  3. verb To honor as holy, glorify; to extol for excellence.

Full definition of bless

Questions about bless in a sentence

How do you use bless in a sentence?
Bless is used as a verb and interjection. For example: “In some countries, priests bless farm animals on St. Anthony's Day.”
What is a short sentence with bless?
“Bless yourself today with the gift of forgiveness.”
What does bless mean?
Bless means to make something holy by religious rite, sanctify.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bless (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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