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Example sentences for: baptism

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The tradition is connected to the baptism of St. John, and throughout Mexico, it is common to see water fights on this day, with buckets of water thrown on friends and family.
The Amish allow a period of freedom before baptism, during which young people drink, take drugs, and use machinery and electricity.
The popular use of the name in the US in the 1870s must have been in honor of Oliver Otis Howard (1830-1909), since the surnames of Civil War officers were often used in baptism.
As the explorer Ernest Giles put it, the explorer's experience is a “baptism worse than that of fire—the baptism of no water.”
In these he reprised such religious and mythical shower scenes as the baptism of Christ, and Diana as she was spied upon by Actaeon.