How to Use Christ in a Sentence
Christ
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And the way of light is the way of Jesus Christ for us.
—Scott Simon, NPR, 30 Aug. 2025
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Jesus Christ knows that no one was murdered in this case.
—Itzel Luna, USA TODAY, 2023-07-31
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We are saddened for the glory of Christ in this matter.
—Mark Davis, Newsweek, 2025-03-14
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Peter doesn’t have to follow Christ the same way his pastor does.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 2024-09-24
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Some believe the bread represents the body of Christ and the syrup represents his blood.
—Janelle Davis, CNN, 2023-04-06
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If the Church places a customs officer at the door, that is no longer the Church of Christ.
—Nicholas Rice, Peoplemag, 2024-05-20
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There are saints in our midst in all parishes, who can bring us to Christ no matter what their gender or marital status might be.
—Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2025
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How to tell a true from a false prophet, the real Christ, returned in glory, from a dime-store messiah with a huckster’s charm?
—Michael Robbins, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
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Make sure to check out the scenic Christ Church Frederica, which is one of the oldest churches in the state.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 2025-02-23
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The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), which pulled back to reveal a crown of thorns.
—Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 17 Aug. 2025
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Today, there’s a cross painted high on the front of Partakers of Christ’s nondescript cinder-block facade.
—Theoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 28 Aug. 2025
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At the center of the tondo, the Virgin Mary holds both a pomegranate and an infant Jesus Christ.
—Demir Alp, JSTOR Daily, 29 Aug. 2025
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An unlicensed casino grows up to be a Baptist college, one that doesn’t shy away from its sordid past, as Christ himself never shied away from a sinner.
—Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Aug. 2025
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The victim, whose name was not immediately released, was taken to Christ Hospital where she was pronounced dead, police said.
—Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 1 Sep. 2025
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Surveillance and witness reports placed him along Frank Scott Parkway near Christ Church in Fairview Heights.
—Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
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The researchers discovered remains of ceramics and cooking vessels, including a ceramic lamp decorated with an early symbol of Christ, all dated to the fifth century.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2025
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In the standard form of the Catholic sacrament today, the communal element is reduced but not lost, since the confessor stands in for the presence of Christ and for the presence of the wider Christian community.
—Timothy Gabrielli, The Conversation, 25 Aug. 2025
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Microsoft engineer Dustin Ryan draws attention to the 3,700 languages that still lack scripture in his article for Christ Over All.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025
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The idea hails from Utah Mormon culture, where many members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, like the Cheneys, abstain from drinking alcohol in line with religious doctrine.
—Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 22 Aug. 2025
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One excellent example of a CEO spending time in the trenches is Christ Pitt, CEO of British bank first direct, who sets aside time every week to directly answer customers’ calls.
—Jo Causon, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
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Yeoh — who recently supported Erivo at her Hollywood Bowl production of Jesus Christ Superstar —confirms that the movies’ cast has remained close throughout filming and promotion.
—Jack Smart, People.com, 21 Aug. 2025
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The assaults took place from 2019 to 2022, with some at Strength in Christ Athletes in Parker and others happening elsewhere, according to the district attorney’s office.
—Meg Wingerter, Denver Post, 16 Aug. 2025
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Officers arrested Roberts for allegedly burning a Nativity scene and other religious displays outside Christ Church North Bay on July 12.
—Cameron MacDonald, Mercury News, 29 Aug. 2025
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Showrunner Eric Kripke was inspired by Fox News pundits and former Hallmark talent demanding to re-center the December holiday season on Christ and Christian values.
—Megan Vick, Variety, 17 Aug. 2025
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Importantly for our purposes here, Hammel’s character Karla has long been out and mostly likes to armchair-philosophize and make dry quips about Fire Island; amid a sea of earnest trans characters who go on emotional Journeys™, thank Christ for that.
—Samantha Allen, Them., 22 Aug. 2025
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The church is an international new religious movement founded by South Korean minister Sun Myung Moon, who claimed to have been visited by Jesus Christ in 1935 and commissioned to renew his work of salvation.
—Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 29 Aug. 2025
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In Commonweal a Berrigan brother wrote from jail of the hopeful solidarity among his Black cellmates; Catholic Worker newspapers, their cheap ink faded by an afternoon of sunlight, described finding Christ among tramps on the breadline and exhorted readers to join Him.
—Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2025
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The same husband-and-wife team, filmmakers Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbet, return with The Testament of Ann Lee, starring Seyfried as the founding leader of the Shaker Movement, proclaimed as the female Christ by her followers.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 27 Aug. 2025
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According to one Tennessean article, four semi-trailers full of supplies, including bedding, appliances and more than 700 food boxes that could each feed a family of four for a week, were on stand-by from the Church of Christ Disaster Relief Effort in Nashville the day before the storm.
—Angele Latham, The Tennessean, 29 Aug. 2025
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During a career retrospective at the Sarajevo Film Festival, the Florida Project star discussed the backlash to his 1988 film The Last Temptation of Christ, Martin Scorsese's adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis' 1955 novel of the same name that cast Dafoe as Jesus Christ.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 21 Aug. 2025
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