Example sentences for: sacrament

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

  • Although not a religious sacrament, the celebrations of Quinceañeras take on a strong religious undertone.

  • Not only was the Mass in English, celebrated by a priest facing the congregation, but at Communion time, the sacrament was distributed in both "species" (wine as well as bread) by ministers of both sexes--though some older parishioners, after receiving the consecrated wafer from priestly hands, avoided the female eucharistic minister (a laywoman) offering the chalice.

  • Adultery still plays a role in Catholic annulments . The Catholic Church still does not consider divorces legitimate: Marriage, it says, is a sacrament and insoluble.

  • Some would dismiss this as photo-op ecumenism and note that Anglicans are not invited to take Holy Communion in Roman Catholic churches, despite agreements by an Anglican-Roman Catholic theological commission on the meaning of that sacrament.

  • The main Sunday meeting — the counterpart to Catholic mass — is called sacrament meeting , sacrament in the Mormon sense being one specific sacrament only: what other christians called the Eucharist.


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