How to Use Agnus Dei in a Sentence

Agnus Dei

noun

• Eighty or more minutes later at the end of the Agnus Dei, when the great plea for peace reaches its ultimate transcendence, up becomes, in one of the most profoundly unsettling moments in all music, down again.
  — Classical Music Critic, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2026
• Mastrovito's Agnus Dei features the Lamb, made of hollow glass and covered in glass fragments, suspended in the air from the cross' upper arm within a hyperboloid covered in gold leaf.
  — New Atlas, 23 Feb. 2026
• The Agnus Dei begins in glum realization that there may be no compensation for humanity’s great sins when, again astonishingly without expectation, one of Beethoven’s uniquely wondrous melodies takes over.
  — Classical Music Critic, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2026
• While the exterior is technically complete, there's still work to be done over the next eight years in the church, including decorative elements, the cladding on the arms of the cross, and sculptures – including the Agnus Dei, or the Lamb of God.
  — New Atlas, 23 Feb. 2026
• Spiritual exercises could equally begin with Agnus Dei (circa 1635–1640), a smaller, landscape-format canvas painted by Zurbarán at about the same time.
  — Julian Bell, The New York Review of Books, 1 Aug. 2026