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How to use crucify in a sentence

17 example sentences · verb

Crucify means to execute (a person) by nailing to a cross. Example: “After his public gaffe, he was crucified in the media.”

Examples of crucify by meaning

verbTo punish or otherwise express extreme anger at, especially as a scapegoat or target of outrage.

  • After his public gaffe, he was crucified in the media.

verbTo thoroughly beat at a sport or game.

  • West Ham beat Manchester City five nil–they crucified them!

More sentences with crucify

  • Jesus was salvifically crucified, according to the New Testament.From the entry salvifically
  • Like Simeon he proclaimed the message of Christ and him crucified.1995, Nigel Scotland, “Claphamite Pastor and Prelate”, in John Bird Sumner: Evangelical Archbishop, Gracewing, →ISBN, pages 103–104. From the entry crucicentric
  • You constantly hear the misaccusation that Christianity crucified the Jewish nation during the Holocaust.1988, Wacław Zajączkowski, Martyrs of charity, page 31. From the entry misaccusation
  • Jesus was crucified on a tree to give us life.2015, Bruce Thomas, God's Purpose for His Creation. From the entry tree
  • Other scenes featured the rapper being crucified on the cross.2013 May 8, “Most controversial music videos”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 19 Sep 2015. From the entry say no more
  • Round the crucified animal long, sharp bamboo stakes are placed, which form chevaux de frise round about it.1909, Major A. Playfair, The Garos, page 92. From the entry cheval de frise
  • Outside of Jerusalem, at Golgotha, Jesus was crucified on a tree with two other thieves because He claimed to be the king of the Jews.2022, Sharmila Panirselvam, Life in the Hands of Jesus. From the entry tree
  • But rather now they crucify poorly resourced young mothers with “failure-to-protect” laws, so women who are “less than” get lengthy terms relative to male child-abusers.2022 December 20, Mike Beebe, “[Letters to the Editor] Men keep failing women”, in Monadnock Ledger-Transcript, Peterborough, N.H., page…. From the entry less than
  • The priest went on to say that God tipped the scales in favor of hope "through the resurrection of our crucified divine brother Jesus."2007, Melannie Svoboda, In Steadfast Love: Letters on the Spiritual Life, page 122. From the entry tip the scale
  • There's a tradition that the cross on which Christ was crucified was of popple, and they say the wood was cursed on that account.1911, Highways and byways of the Great Lakes, The Macmillan company, page 264. From the entry popple
  • Likewise the theology of God crucified, the weakness of the cross, the divine bias to the poor and impotent, makes no idol or ideology of powerlessness.1990, Alan E[dmond] Lewis, “Unmasking Idolatries: Vocation in the Ecclesia Crucis”, in Christian D. Kettler, Todd H. Speidell, editors…. From the entry resurrectingly
  • When Christ was being crucified, so ran the sea-borne, hieratic legend, the earth had opened all through this country, though the coincidence could hardly have impressed anyone then!1947, Malcolm Lowry, chapter 1, in Under the Volcano, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock. From the entry hieratic
  • When my most jesus fear is crucified By ready nails at every stranger's eye, By christian words mishammered at my ear, They are my fears, not I, that die.1947, Here and Now, page 63. From the entry mishammer
  • Are we to be crucified just to save the faces of our leaders or to bolster up the preposterous that India can be a single nation?1933, Choudhary Rahmat Ali et al., Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever?. From the entry to death
  • The frenzied, suggestible, gregarious, subconscious self, freed from all rational restraints, celebrated its delirious orgies, its corybantic bacchanalia, held its mad salto mortale over the grave of crucified humanity.1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress. From the entry salto mortale

Meaning of crucify

  1. verb To execute (a person) by nailing to a cross.
  2. verb To punish or otherwise express extreme anger at, especially as a scapegoat or target of outrage.
  3. verb To thoroughly beat at a sport or game.

Full definition of crucify

Questions about crucify in a sentence

How do you use crucify in a sentence?
Crucify is used as a verb. For example: “After his public gaffe, he was crucified in the media.”
What is a short sentence with crucify?
“Jesus was salvifically crucified, according to the New Testament.”
What does crucify mean?
Crucify means to execute (a person) by nailing to a cross.

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