Example sentences for: saint

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

  • Another expression for this religious art is retablo ex-voto, a votive painting created in payment to a saint according to a vow.

  • As all readers probably know, Laurence or Lawrence sprang in medieval use from the name of the Roman saint who was martyred by being broiled on a gridiron in 258.

  • These are blessings and curses he wrote on charred or otherwise manipulated bits of paper and sent to friends, enemies, and a few public figures (Hitler, for one) in the late 1930s, in the wake of a disastrous trip he took to Ireland, wielding a cane that he believed was the staff of Saint Patrick, from which he returned in a straitjacket.

  • She cared about being a celebrity, and her public responded to her devotion by canonizing her: Saint Diana of Bathos.

  • September: Lyon, Dance Biennale; Deauville, American film festival; Paris, Festival d’Automne (music and theater; till December); Dijon, wine festival; Mont-Saint-Michel, procession and Mass for Saint Michael


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