How to Use saint in a Sentence
saint
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The lives of the saints to me are kind of like horrible fables.
—Erik Morse, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2023
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So much more than the Americana saint he was seen as at the end.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 10 Oct. 2023
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But not a saint in terms of being chaste and pure and sexless.
—Abby Diamond, Billboard, 2 Sep. 2022
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For the people helped by the network, like Curtis, Yager was a saint.
—Corin Cesaric, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2022
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The days would be named for aspects of rural life rather than for saints.
—Dominic Green, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2023
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Such were the makings of our devotion to a great saint.
—Nicholas Tomaino, WSJ, 19 Mar. 2023
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Then, the saint ordered one of his disciples to swim across the loch to retrieve a boat for the men.
—Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2022
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For hundreds of years, hurricanes took their names for the saints linked to the date the storm made landfall.
—Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 19 Aug. 2023
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Religion at its worst can be a tool to divide — the saints and the sinners.
—Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2023
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The saint part is the gift the creatives give us: a song to live by, a book to change the world, an innovation that changes lives.
—Amity Shlaes, National Review, 8 Dec. 2023
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She was turned into a saint so that her life could be turned into a moral.
—Blair McClendon, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
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For hundreds of years, storms were named after saint days.
—Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 2 June 2023
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The researchers don’t know who the bone splinters belonged to, or whether that person was a saint.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Jan. 2023
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Instead, saints with the iconographic power of Mayan deities lined the walls.
—Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 22 June 2023
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Rarely are his leads neat or tidy, and true to form Lib is no saint, with sorrows and secrets of her own.
—Thomas Page, CNN, 16 Nov. 2022
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Of course, Coco could not take a living and breathing saint like that out.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 20 Oct. 2022
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Inside the cathedral are icons from the 18th century, as well as new icons of Alaskan saints.
—Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 3 June 2023
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Where few would say Kanye has much virtue to spread around these days, Lamar is regarded by many as a saint.
—Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2022
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She was sometimes described, with only some irony, as a saint, her fans as a cult.
—Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2022
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The saint wasn't really a bearded man who wore a red suit; that look came much later.
—Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 23 Sep. 2022
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The tropical fruit represented the golden gifts from the saint, and oranges were a rare treat in the 1800s.
—Chelsey Cox, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2021
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God had other plans for the would-be saint, according to Catholic Online.
—Leah Asmelash, CNN, 17 Mar. 2022
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Highsmith saw him as an egotist who doesn’t disagree when friends call him a saint.
—Amy Nicholson, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2022
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Caroline and Sonya are the two saints who married my brothers.
—Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 14 May 2023
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Mother White, the saint of early Anchorage, had died, and the nascent town shut down to pay its respects.
—David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Mar. 2022
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Sicilian churches burned with the relics of saints inside them.
—Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 29 July 2023
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The earliest depictions of the saint depict him in blue robes and garments.
—Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 15 Mar. 2024
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Saint Patrick is the protecting and guiding saint of Ireland.
—Maria Jimenez Moya, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2022
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Valentine was declared a saint by the church sometime later.
—Betty Cahill, The Denver Post, 13 Feb. 2024
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Gay groups were banned from the parade the next year on the grounds that their presence was inappropriate for a celebration of a Catholic saint.
—Liam Stack, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2024
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