How to Use sinful in a Sentence

sinful

adjective

• It is sinful to steal.
• Sure, or shoplifting or anything that feels sinful or wrong.
  — Sharyn Alfonsi, CBS News, 8 Dec. 2025
• Winchester still has a few made in Japan, which seems a bit sinful.
  — Outdoor Life, 5 Sep. 2019
• And what good mischief doesn't begin with a little sinful bite?
  — Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 14 Feb. 2026
• Some knew the non-meaty parts are good for making stock and that the skin can be fried into crisp, sinful snacks.
  — Bonnie S. Benwick, sacbee, 29 Aug. 2017
• Gettin’ sinful all of a sudden.
  — David Searcy, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
• Suicide is wrongly seen as a character or moral flaw — or even a sinful act.
  — Steven Petrow, Washington Post, 23 June 2018
• There are certain religious groups who have turned it into a sinful act.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 27 July 2023
• Bowing down and worshiping an idol is sinful.
  — Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 12 May 2026
• Where do Greater Clevelanders go to indulge in this sinful treat?
  — cleveland, 25 July 2021
• Don't lecture on the value of life or whether suicide is viewed by some as a sinful, selfish or angry act.
  — al, 1 Aug. 2019
• The message seemed to be that anxiety was sinful, a sign of faithlessness.
  — Kate Siber, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2022
• But the topper to this meal is the Egg—a sinful concoction of chocolate and caramel served in an eggshell.
  — New York Eateries, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
• Indulge in its sinful selection of layer cakes and pies—a slice of coconut cream rakes in the most rave reviews.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 8 Dec. 2023
• In an effort to avoid the flames, believers would avoid sinful behavior and embrace lives of virtue.
  — Scott G. Bruce, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2018
• The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
  — Michael Paterniti, GQ, 26 June 2018
• The ethics of morning The idea that sleeping late is sinful has deep roots in Western culture.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 6 June 2024
• The woman who’d always warned that reading the wrong books or watching the wrong movies could open the door to sinful temptation.
  — Mike Hixenbaugh, USA TODAY, 13 Aug. 2022
• The honey stuck to the wafer in such a perfect way that the blunder turned into a deliciously sinful treat.
  — Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 22 Oct. 2022
• Christians sometimes say that the Church is made up of people, and people are sinful, so this is going to take place.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 26 May 2022
• Hippocrates blamed an imbalance of the biles, blood, and phlegm; medieval doctors chalked illness up to man’s sinful ways.
  — David Ferry, Men's Health, 7 Feb. 2023
• So will central themes such as the enduring sting of antisemitism and the push-pull between the sacred and the sinful.
  — Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2021
• And in this case, there’s nothing more sinful than talking about LeBron James trades.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
• Men were sinful, and the goodness of women was the essential bulwark against the corruption of the world.
  — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 16 July 2022
• Michelle Yeoh Yeoh may be in her villain era, but there's nothing sinful about her Louvre look.
  — Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2025
• The flower seems to embody some sinful, Gauguinesque escape to the tropics.
  — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2019
• There have long been debates in churches about whether just listening to worldly music was sinful, let alone playing it.
  — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2025
• Pennsylvania was the ninth-most sinful state in 2024.
  — Michael Guise, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2026
• Why, these extremists abhor the very idea that Hutchinson would want to protect sinful perverts with a hate-crime law.
  — John Brummett, Arkansas Online, 25 Apr. 2021
• Whereas the former could be in keeping with the spirit of Proverbs 31, the latter is sinful.
  — Evan Halper, latimes.com, 3 Aug. 2017