Example sentences for: sinners

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

  • During the summers, every city and small town had its revival tent where repentant sinners walked down the aisle, the sawdust trail , to the mourners' bench for prayer and sometimes emotional repentance.

  • That's an outcome that seems both fair and economically efficient: The punishment falls on the sinners and thereby deters the sin.

  • Shulman aside, you could find one-line descriptions of Goodman's main characters in any half-dozen American-Jewish novels: the rabbi with two sons, one brilliant and prodigal, one duller but more loyal; the Holocaust survivor numbed by his past; the daughters tempted by the twin heresies of feminism and Zionism (Israel is viewed as a nation of faithless sinners by these ultra-Orthodox Jews); the assimilationist Jew who comes to a bad end.

  • Those who eat meat are not wrongdoers or sinners.

  • The New York Times sees two trends in the deal: the prostitution of the royal family ("The next thing we'll see Queen Elizabeth doing commercials for Depends," says an American ad man) and America's sick fondness for notorious sinners.


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