How to Use consecrated in a Sentence

consecrated

adjective
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  • Did the secret of this avowal loiter in the breast of a consecrated virgin?
    — Cynthia Ozick, Harper's Magazine, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The site also feeds souls as a consecrated place for prayer and sweat lodges.
    — AZCentral.com, 18 Aug. 2021
  • So he had been buried in consecrated ground in Verona, Italy.
    — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 19 Mar. 2023
  • The 7-year-old girl grabbed the chalice with the consecrated wine representing the blood of Christ and took a sip.
    — Alfonzo Galvan, USA TODAY, 3 May 2022
  • Catholics believe the consecrated host is truly the body and blood of Jesus — not just a symbol, but the real thing.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 12 Apr. 2022
  • As baptized Catholics, the children were entitled to burial in consecrated ground, and yet at least some had wound up in the chambers of an old sewage system while in the care of Catholic nuns.
    — Dan Barry, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2022
  • In ancient Rome, the area of the pomerium was a consecrated piece of land along the city walls, where it was forbidden to farm, live or build and through which it was forbidden to enter with weapons.
    — Chron, 16 July 2021
  • In this place of honor, the priests and deacon took turns carrying a monstrance, an ornate gilded container made to hold the consecrated holy Eucharist, which Catholics believe is the body and blood of Christ.
    — Daniel I. Dorfman, chicagotribune.com, 8 June 2021
  • Those who trek from distant places to — by their very gathering — collectively acknowledge the power in the consecrated soil of these schools.
    — Charanna Alexander, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2020
  • And expect a continued disparagement of Catholic moral teaching and the role of redemptive suffering in consecrated life.
    — Jim Towey, National Review, 26 May 2021
  • Whether the money came from tithes, the interest on tithes or the profit from other business ventures originally purchased with consecrated funds is irrelevant to me.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Because the Catholic Church promulgated the belief that a child who died unbaptized could not be buried in consecrated ground, lay people desperate for their children to be properly laid to rest would find their own sites of significance.
    — NBC News, 8 Apr. 2021
  • The human remains will be analyzed by experts before being reburied in consecrated ground, per the publication.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Ann introduced herself as a consecrated pilgrim who had renounced worldly possessions.
    — Lisa Wells, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
  • Ever since 2014, those loyal to dewiness and glossiness have sought a consecrated place to pay homage to Balm Dotcom universal salve and Boy Brow grooming pomade.
    — Heather Havrilesky, New York Times, 12 May 2023

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