Example sentences for: sinners

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

  • Boycotts lower corporate profits, which punishes not the discriminatory management but the innocent stockholders--that is, not the sinners, but their victims.

  • 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.

  • Ted Bernstein, when he was assistant managing editor of The New York Times , published a house organ, “Winners and Sinners,” that offered kudos for the occasional “bright passage” or deft metaphor and cited questionable and nonstandard grammar and usage that appeared in the newspaper.

  • Bible-belt round Anglo-waste [ sic ], putting sinners in their place.


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