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Example sentences for: commandments

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

Having rebelled in their youth against Judaism's commandments, having come to revile its restrictions--having, in some sense, wished it dead--they were forced to watch the Nazis fulfill their fantasy by actually murdering the thing whose destruction they inwardly willed.
If the angels (who become serial killers on their trek to New Jersey, gorily murdering Ten Commandments violators as a kind of last hurrah), succeed in their mission, God will be shown to be fallible, the center will not hold, and the apocalypse will destroy all life in the universe.
9. "When the Ten Commandments can't be placed in courtrooms (even though a relief of Moses adorns the House chamber), and schoolchildren are harassed by school officials for privately practicing their faith, something is wrong."
If voters considered all Ten Commandments pertinent to their decision about whom to vote for, the New York Times had no business suppressing information about one that it thought was OK.
"Post the Ten Commandments inside every classroom."