How to use saint in a sentence

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• Under Christianization, many converted societies transformed their pagan deities into saints.From the entry pagan
• Some saints are believed to have forgiven their martyrizers during fatal torture.From the entry martyrizer
• He's an honest-to-God saint; I don't know what I would do without him!From the entry honest-to-God
• You must have had the patience of a saint to sit through that awful film!From the entry patience of a saint
• The perseverance of the saints is positive willedness, not mere passive willingness.From the entry willedness
• She regards her kids as (being) holy as saints.From the entry as
• In its list of saints, the Catholic Church classifies St. Agnes, St. Maria Goretti, and St. Thérèse of Lisieux as virgins.From the entry virgin
• Janet is the patron saint of procrastination. I'm thinking of erecting her a shrine of doughnut boxes in the breakroom.From the entry patron saint
• Are you a sinner or a saint?From the entry sinner
• To seek hallows: to visit relics or shrines, in the belief that the saints themselves are present there.From the entry hallow
• Canon law determines who is declared a saint.From the entry canon law
• For quotations using this term, see Citations:ice saints.From the entry ice saints
• Lou and I walked around, examining the prayer cards for various saints—the trading cards of Catholicism.2020, Phuc Tran, Sigh, Gone: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In, Flatiron Books, →ISBN. From the entry Jesi
• Was it a sin to trade three saints for a Jesus if you already had two Jesi?2020, Phuc Tran, Sigh, Gone: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In, Flatiron Books, →ISBN. From the entry Jesi
• This miracle signals that she has become a myroblyte, a healing saint.2015, Haruko Nawata Ward, “Images of the Incarnation in the Jesuit Japan Mission's Kirishitanban Story of Virgin Martyr St. Catherine of…. From the entry myroblyte
• For survival we have to be Sunday saint and everyday sinner.2014, Yingtien A. Shih, Bleating in Southern California: Confucius, Lao-Tzu, M. Twain, O. Wilde, Etc., Andy Shih, page 226. From the entry good book
• I have watched and waited for a saint but none showed up—not even a marginal saint.2013 August 29, Clifford D. Simak, Project Pope, Hachette UK, →ISBN, →OCLC. From the entry marginal
• The patron saint of the clarinet, far as I'm concerned—fit for the angel choir.2012, Claire Germain Nail, Saint Sullivan's Daughter, page 262. From the entry licorice stick
• Edward Mehok offers a catalogue of prototypical Supermannish feats performed by Christian saints in “St.2009, Sue Taylor, Mark Newport: Superheroes In Action, Cranbrook Art Museum, →ISBN, page 17. From the entry supermannish
• I have seen them behell a saint for ignorantly drinking an alcoholic drink.2006, Philangi Dasa, Swedenborg the Buddhist. From the entry behell
• Since the twelfth century the pope has been the Church's sole authority for canonizing saints.2001, Sarah Gallick, “Introduction”, in The Big Book of Women Saints, New York, N.Y.: HarperSanFrancisco, →ISBN, page 2. From the entry canonize
• One day a saint, wandering in the vicinity in search of drinking water, fainted.2001, Philip E. LaMoreaux with Judy T. Tanner, Springs and Bottled Waters of the World, →ISBN, page 166. From the entry drinking water
• The book of the Apocalypse describes "dead" saints standing before the very throne of God.2001 June 20, Lee Malatesta, “Orthodox doctrine about saints”, in alt.religion.christian.east-orthodox (Usenet), retrieved 12 Jul 2022. From the entry ridicularity
• Well, it's easy to be a saint in paradise, but the Maquis do not live in paradise.1994, Ira Steven Behr, “The Maquis, Part II”, in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, season 2, episode 21, spoken by Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks). From the entry paradise
• This is at least a third of the way up the career path to being a saint.1992, Will Self, Cock and Bull. From the entry prebendary
• Nobody wanted to kill an obvious saint unless the Church okayed it.1970, Leslie Waller, chapter 8, in The American: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 60. From the entry okay
• In Nauvoo the cry against the saints had been the claim that they sheltered counterfeiters and bogusmakers.1968, Robert B. Day, They Made Mormon History, page 287. From the entry bogusmaker
• Candles flickered redly before the saints, the Christ on his cross.circ. 1965, Mario Puzo, The Godfather. From the entry genuflect
• So Cash McCall, like his patron saint, does well by doing good.1960, Albert D. Van Nostrand, The Denatured Novel, volume 3, Bobbs-Merrill, page 170. From the entry do well by doing good
• According to William of Worcester, quite a large number of Cornish saints were cephalophores: besides S.1960, Gilbert Hunter Doble, The Saints of Cornwall, volume 5, page 60. From the entry cephalophore
• "What do I want to be a saint for at all, is my puzzle!1958, Terence Hanbury White, The Once and Future King, London: William Collins, Sons, →OCLC. From the entry shillelagh
• Ah, says I, but us can't all be saints like yourself, Parson.1931, Gerald Bullett, Marden Fee, page 99. From the entry shatter
• If they ever outgrow this hagiophobia they may some day venerate the Gloomy Dean as a saint.1930, Selden Peabody Delany, Why Rome, The Dial Press, page 54. From the entry hagiophobia
• This story of a saint makes far deeper appeal to sense than to soul.1909, The Atlantic Monthly, The Atlantic Monthly Company, pages 685-686. From the entry overbrilliant
• Our Mistress of Novices was a true saint, the very type of a primitive Carmelitess.1901, Saint Thérèse (de Lisieux), The Little Flower of Jesus. From the entry Carmelitess
• “The church wants to have a young saint who is a millennial, somebody who belongs to the modern age.”2025 September 6, Angela Giuffrida, quoting Andrea Vreede, “Pope prepares to canonise London-born teenager nicknamed ‘God’s influencer’”…. From the entry millennial

Meaning of saint

1. noun A deceased person whom a church or another religious group has officially recognised as especially holy or godly; one eminent for piety and virtue.
2. noun One of the blessed in heaven.
3. noun A Christian; a faithful believer in the present world.

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Questions about saint in a sentence

How do you use saint in a sentence?

Saint is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The Roman Catholic Church proclaimed Kateri Tekakwitha a saint in 2012.”

What is a short sentence with saint?

“Dorothy Day was a living saint.”

What does saint mean?

Saint means a deceased person whom a church or another religious group has officially recognised as especially holy or godly; one eminent for piety and virtue.