Example sentences for: sinner

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

  • I'm not sure I totally buy Strathairn as a diffident loner with an aching conscience over a tragedy that wasn't his fault--the quintessential guiltless sinner.

  • Bill Clinton's meeting with the pope in St. Louis received extensive coverage in Europe ("Most famous sinner meets His Holiness" was the headline in the Independent of London), but especially in Italy where the Corriere della Sera of Milan said Wednesday in a front-page editorial that although no American president had ever met a pope more often, nor made such a public display of his Christian faith than Clinton, "perhaps no president has become so distant from the Holy Father.

  • A prominent gay fraygrant denounced Christians' "hypocrisy," their (large) role in denying gays equal civil and legal rights, and their "hate the sin but love the sinner" stance.

  • For Nolte, Stalin was the original sinner.

  • This theological approach warrants valorizing or stigmatizing people as “saved” or “sinner,” “pure” or “impure,” “us” or “them,” and it strengthens the broader social stratifications within which stigma flourishes.


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