Used in a Sentence

sinning

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for sinning.

Editorial note

Once again, you talk about how the government is sinning against your Bible.

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Quick take

The act of committing a sin.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of sinning gathered in one view.

noun

The act of committing a sin.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for sinning.

noun

The act of committing a sin.

Example sentences

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Once again, you talk about how the government is sinning against your Bible.

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It ignores the fact that it is often only by sinning ourselves that we can learn exactly why sinning is bad.

3

Were the abolitionist Christians who did rebel against slavery sinning against God in doing so?

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When you kill that person, you have joined them in also sinning against God — irrespective of what your reason was.

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Luther became concerned that everything he did was sinning in one form or another.

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The way they ignore everything else that doesn't validate their own sinning?

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Anyone who supports or performs acts of violence as you are referencing are sinning and blaspheming when using a reference to God for their actions.

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They told me it's not about trying to earn our future by good works because we keep sinning all our lives.

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If a Baptist tells me I’m sinning because I smoke and drink whiskey, I don’t hate him, I just dismiss him.

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Are they also stopping evolution and sinning against the universe?

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The sinning function was the product of a human mind.

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Here at Sin we understand your commitment and want to give you what you need to take your sinning to the next level.

Quote examples

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What's stopping your boss from covertly finding out who among his employees is "sinning" or what have you.

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I don’t think that a Christian would consider “not sinning” a vanity activity.

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(What if the function calls itself?) Also, side-effects aren't "bad" and you aren't "sinning".

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John: "If a man knows his brother to be guilty, yet not of such a sin as brings death with it, he should pray for him; and, at his request, life will be granted to the brother who is sinning, yet not fatally.

Proper noun examples

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In the vast majority of cases, conflicts between my arational religious beliefs and rational scientific beliefs are essentially consequenceless; acting according to rational belief does not result in Sinning, so I can make practical use of scientific knowledge in my life while still gaining emotional satisfaction and sense of purpose from the belief in things that cannot be definitively proven one way or the other.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use sinning in a sentence?

Once again, you talk about how the government is sinning against your Bible.

What does sinning mean?

The act of committing a sin.

What part of speech is sinning?

sinning is commonly used as noun.