Example sentences for: baptism

How can you use “baptism” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The most avid practitioners are Mormons, who believe that ancestors can be saved through posthumous baptism and have established 3,200 genealogy libraries around the world to encourage conversions.

  • As the explorer Ernest Giles put it, the explorer's experience is a “baptism worse than that of fire—the baptism of no water.”

  • It further suggested "[i]t would be a powerful focus for healing if the Church leaders were to nominate a day when we could each reassert the commitment to basic Christian principles we made at baptism."

  • The Amish allow a period of freedom before baptism, during which young people drink, take drugs, and use machinery and electricity.

  • A long history of absorbing outside influences has resulted in a society in which people expect to have a Shinto baptism, a pseudo-Christian wedding (usually held in a hotel “chapel” and officiated by an unordained foreigner in a robe), and a Buddhist funeral.


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