How to Use intercession in a Sentence

intercession

noun

• The verb used for that intercession is va’yechal, the very term used in our text.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 6 July 2021
• At that event, many said they were saved by Casey's intercession.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 12 Nov. 2021
• Those looking for saintly intercession can choose from a pantheon of holy helpers.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2022
• The salvific intercessions of a goddess would have been needed.
  — Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
• Your intercession isn’t likely to change things for the better, no matter how good your intentions are.
  — R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2025
• In ancient times, families hoped that through such intercession, the dead person would receive a better place in the life hereafter.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 26 Apr. 2021
• What intercessions are made into the official record when the Black woman makes the world see from her perspective?
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2023
• Soon after the dancers were despatched to a mountaintop shrine in the Vosges mountains to pray for divine intercession.
  — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 13 Jan. 2017
• Not all birth rituals depended on the intercession of a saint or the authority of a churchman.
  — Literary Hub, 18 Mar. 2026
• Christians believe that atonement comes through the intercession of Jesus.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 2 Oct. 2017
• By means of their intercession, the Church can continue to win victories in her battle for the salvation of souls.
  — Nr Interview, National Review, 22 July 2017
• In these circumstances, fathers and sons sometimes went to war—and only the intercession of the queen allowed both sides to make peace without losing face.
  — Carolyn Harris, Smithsonian, 12 May 2017
• That exercise has a special place in Catholic tradition—not only to pray, but to do so through the intercession of those in heaven.
  — Nicholas Tomaino, WSJ, 19 Mar. 2023
• One key step is the Vatican confirming that Casey's intercession helped lead to miracles, a process that can take years.
  — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 4 May 2017
• Many of them, including Ima, had escaped thanks to the intercession of another domestic worker.
  — Noy Thrupkaew, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2021
• This is not the first time the Bears have risen to heavenly heights amid suspicions of supernatural intercession.
  — Dan Pompei, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026
• Whether the outcome was due to his testimony, or to the intercession of a blind teenage superfan who had made a private appeal to the judge, is impossible to know.
  — Jillian Sederholm, EW.com, 18 Feb. 2025
• Some see them as shelters for souls separated violently from their bodies, others as places where the living can pray to the dead for intercession with the divine.
  — Maggie Shipstead Anthony Cotsifas, New York Times, 10 May 2023
• Only the intercession of the Spanish-speaking hotel owner stopped a certain riot.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2021
• His effort to offer enrichment and catch-up work during intercessions got off to a slow start but has become a recurring instructional program.
  — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2026
• Normally, two miracles must be attributed to a prospective saint’s intercession.
  — Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 7 Sep. 2025
• After this step, the Vatican has to approve of a miracle attributed to the intercession of the potential saint.
  — Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 24 June 2023
• The prayer will implore the Virgin Mary's intercession and protection amid the coronavirus crisis.
  — NBC News, 29 May 2020
• What is sure, is, that as soon as the penny rattles in the chest, gain and avarice are on the way of increase; but the intercession of the church depends only on the will of God Himself.
  — Kristin E. Holmes, Philly.com, 27 Oct. 2017
• Some don’t believe what the Church teaches about the real presence, the resurrection of the body, apostolic succession, the intercession of the saints.
  — Nicholas Frankovich, National Review, 9 Apr. 2020
• The segment describing Johnson's rough life and Garrido's intercession aired to the minor chords of an electric guitar.
  — Maya Dukmasova, Chicago Reader, 19 Mar. 2018
• Because of that connection, the Church teaches that asking for the intercession of Mary is one of the best ways to communicate to Jesus.
  — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 30 Sep. 2017
• Please join me in praying for the renewal of our culture and country through the good news of Jesus Christ and the intercession of our Blessed Mother.
  — Enquirer Staff, The Enquirer, 29 Oct. 2024
• The lawsuit argues that the chant constitutes a prayer because the chant praises the Aztec deities by invoking their names, asking for intercession and showing gratitude.
  — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Sep. 2021
• Later in the day, the three men drove to a local gym where the organizer of a basketball school had prayed to the Madonna for intercession so that the sport could survive coronavirus lockdowns.
  — New York Times, 28 Dec. 2021