How to Use commandment in a Sentence

commandment

noun

• This is the first and great commandment.
  — Monica Passaglia, Christian Science Monitor, 8 July 2025
• Job ads are wish lists, not commandments.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
• And as for her new commandments?
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026
• Treat them as starting points, not commandments.
  — Ryan Brennan, Sacbee.com, 18 June 2026
• One of them said, the sixth commandment is, thou shalt not admit adultery.
  — Harry Bruinius, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 July 2018
• Here are three commandments that cross over all types of weight-loss approaches.
  — Samantha Cassetty, NBC News, 5 Mar. 2018
• The ninth commandment instructs us not to bear false witness.
  — Mark Sandy, TIME, 14 Mar. 2025
• Vaclav Smil put this point in his usual pithy way in the form of a commandment.
  — Jemma Green, Forbes, 19 May 2021
• The commandments have a way of popping up in peculiar places.
  — Ruth Graham, Slate Magazine, 15 May 2017
• Khan declares in her first commandment, speaking with icy cool atop a frigid dub-reggae groove.
  — Kenneth Partridge, Billboard, 22 Jan. 2019
• Beyond knowing how to lay them, caring for your edges is almost like a first commandment for black women.
  — Janell Hickman, Allure, 8 Aug. 2018
• For observant Jews, keeping kosher is not only a way of life but a commandment.
  — Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 29 May 2025
• One of the two great commandments Jesus cited is to love our neighbors as ourselves.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 7 June 2019
• Those most adamantly in the pro-life camp stand foursquare upon this commandment in support of their position.
  — Robert Moore, Arkansas Online, 11 Oct. 2020
• For those who know Sikhs and their commitment and commandment to service, this was not a surprise.
  — Manpreet K. Singh, Houston Chronicle, 8 Apr. 2018
• The commandment, or mitzvah, of Hanukkah is to light the menorah with family or friends at home.
  — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Dec. 2025
• How the Gospels outline the greatest commandment, which is to love your neighbor as yourself.
  — Dan Zak, Washington Post, 15 July 2019
• Instead, the commandments express what God feels is best for His people.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 19 Aug. 2019
• Those archangels, Michael and Gabriel, are on hand to assist God in handing down those new commandments.
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2026
• Of all the beauty commandments, wiping off your makeup before going to bed is one of the most important.
  — Audrey Noble, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Jan. 2019
• Reform Jews follow the values and ethics found in Scripture but not the commandments.
  — Jessica Boehm, azcentral, 23 Mar. 2018
• The two great commandments that Jesus gave us are to love God with all our heart, soul, and mind, and to love our neighbor as ourselves.
  — Camille Carandang, Christian Science Monitor, 24 Nov. 2025
• The pomegranate contains all the commandments of God in its seeds; the divine inhabits it.
  — Demir Alp, JSTOR Daily, 29 Aug. 2025
• Some of the commandments overlap with criminal law, such as prohibitions on murder and theft, but others do not.
  — Jessie Balmert, Cincinnati Enquirer, 6 Oct. 2025
• And frankly the commandment is wise advice even for those who consider the Bible to be nothing more than great literature.
  — Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2020
• Some believe that pomegranates have exactly 613 seeds, the number of commandments in the Torah.
  — Todd A. Price, NOLA.com, 16 Aug. 2017
• To think that those in power in the hierarchy of the church who preach these vows and the 10 commandments knew this was going on and didn’t protect us.
  — Elise Schmelzer, The Denver Post, 25 Oct. 2019
• God has grown weary of the original 10 commandments and is rewriting them with a wicked sense of humor that will keep everyone guessing.
  — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 12 Nov. 2019
• Thus, the biblical lawgiver made sure that no Jew would ever get a perfect 10 in the test of the commandments.
  — Joseph Berger, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2023
• The Zohar describes the commandments as channels through which divine energy flows into the world.
  — Rabbi Bruce D. Forman, Sun Sentinel, 3 Feb. 2026