How to Use sin in a Sentence

sin

1 of 2 noun

• There are worse sins in the world.
  — Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026
• Like sin could be out there like that.
  — David Searcy, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
• Smith is not a big sin guy, not a big works guy.
  — Sam Kestenbaum, Vulture, 2 Jan. 2026
• And my mom used to say, your sins will find you out.
  — ABC News, 19 Oct. 2025
• The sins of the father pass on.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2026
• And in any case, dancing was a sin.
  — Betty Fussell, PEOPLE, 1 Dec. 2025
• That is a red-letter sin in sports.
  — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 June 2026
• Genius and grit can mask a lot of sins.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 18 May 2026
• To work them to death no more a sin than to butcher a hog.
  — Greg Grandin september 23, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
• Invidia is a sin that thrives in the shadows.
  — Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
• The only sin is in failing to ask.
  — Kevin Sherrington feb. 18, Dallas Morning News, 18 Feb. 2026
• Among them was that chanting and dancing could cleanse the body of sin.
  — Barry Levitt, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
• Maybe she’s being punished for her sin?
  — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
• Do not allow the sins of the past to overwhelm, to drown the present.
  — Literary Hub, 16 June 2026
• The movie’s gravest sin, though, might be its very existence.
  — Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 17 June 2026
• And then their sins are forgiven.
  — Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
• And wasn’t this the sin, wasn’t this the scandal, wasn’t this the very name of the crime?
  — Cynthia Ozick, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
• My youth was my downfall, my sin love, and the go-between a snowy day.
  — Literary Hub, 28 May 2026
• Worst of all, my sin has brought dishonor to God.
  — Alex Nitzberg, FOXNews.com, 8 Jan. 2026
• No sin is too grievous for His mercy.
  — Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 2 Apr. 2026
• My little sister used to worry about sin a lot.
  — David Searcy, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
• Their sins will be washed away by the waters of liberty.
  — City News Service, Oc Register, 28 Mar. 2026
• Their sins will be washed away by the waters of liberty.
  — City News Service, Oc Register, 26 Sep. 2025
• The sins of the father are cheerfully sloughed off on the son.
  — Elizabeth Nelson, Pitchfork, 22 Jan. 2026
• That’s one of the great sins committed by this party.
  — David Frum, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2026
• To many, this is Murray’s greatest sin.
  — Doug Haller, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2025
• Ann believes her sins led to their untimely demise.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 26 Dec. 2025
• Guilt, like sin, is the yeast that makes monsters of our fears and anxieties.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023
• Over the next year, Seong-sin teaches Eun-jae the ways of the rich.
  — Kayti Burt, Time, 13 Feb. 2026
• What damages a human being is sin.
  — Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026

sin

2 of 2 verb

• Forgive me, for I have sinned.
• In fact, to pour away the treasured ingredient inside would be close to sin.
  — Brennan Long, Southern Living, 16 Aug. 2025
• In fact, to pour away the treasured ingredient inside would be close to sin.
  — Brennan Long, Southern Living, 9 Dec. 2025
• In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
  — Karla Pope, Good Housekeeping, 21 Feb. 2023
• Russell said Bryant told him his future was bright and there would be other winning moment sin his career.
  — Kent Youngblood, Star Tribune, 6 Feb. 2021
• This is a man who has probably sinned more times and in more areas of life than any human not currently imprisoned.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 17 July 2024
• But, despite the harsh punishment, the humans continued to sin.
  — Simon Rich, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
• Because of course, leftist woke America’s favorite movie this year is about sinning.
  — William Vaillancourt, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2026
• Yet it could be argued that Abraham, by acting to improve his situation, did not sin.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 4 Oct. 2021
• During the week, Barton often painted an image of himself as more sinned against than sinning.
  — Greg O'Keeffe, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2025
• In the Catholic tradition, a bad action doesn’t make someone a bad person; good people can sin and be forgiven.
  — Elias Wachtel, The Atlantic, 25 Apr. 2026
• Hicks has spent a ton of time on OSU’s campus over the past few months attending both games sin the fall and camps in the summer.
  — Stephen Means, cleveland, 13 Nov. 2021
• God’s likeness, which is our true, spiritual identity, never sins and is never punished.
  — Tony Lobl, Christian Science Monitor, 19 Feb. 2025
• God says that following their entry into the land of Israel, the Jews would sin, resulting in their exile.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 19 July 2021
• Again and again, Stan’s Donald spends The Apprentice cataloging the ways in which he has been sinned against.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
• God says that, following their entry into the land of Israel, the Jews would sin, resulting in their exile.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 8 Aug. 2022
• There is, perhaps, a game to be played with novels along these lines, dividing fictional characters into those who sin and those who are merely wrongheaded and sad.
  — Anne Enright, The New York Review of Books, 23 July 2020
• That image of God never has a problem, never has a disease, never lacks anything needful or truly desirable, and has never sinned.
  — Douglas Sytsma, Christian Science Monitor, 30 Jan. 2025
• Labile derives both from the Late Middle English word, liable, as in liable to sin or err, and from Latin, labi, which means to fall.
  — Maureen Stanton, Longreads, 17 Jan. 2020
• Páramo is a perfect hypocrite, sinning freely and then heading to the confession booth to take advantage of his faith’s unlimited forgiveness policy.
  — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 7 Sep. 2024
• The bar embodies the new season’s unusual tension between the spiritual and the profane, jutting out into the desert as an establishment devoted to sin that Rue sees as her salvation.
  — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 19 Apr. 2026
• At most, the Holmes verdict serves as a cautionary tale as old as time, reminding us about the fallibility of human nature and importance of proper checks-and-balances that guard against our inherent propensity to sin.
  — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 4 Jan. 2022
• John DeWitt, the four-star general who oversaw the internment program, in particular, seems to be a forerunner to some of America's worst errors, paranoia, sins.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 1 Dec. 2025
• Addressing the congregation that evening before offering Aaron some more personalized wisdom, Tim speaks about the necessity of accepting Jesus Christ into one’s life to counteract doubt and the temptation to sin.
  — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2024