How to Use tithe in a Sentence

tithe

1 of 2 noun

• And take a tithe from the drug production that their fall from power allowed.
  — Sam Kiley, CNN, 15 Aug. 2021
• This week's portion includes the law of viduy ma'asrot-confession of the tithes.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Jewish Journal, 5 Sep. 2017
• According to the Torah, tithes are taken from the crops in three year cycles.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Jewish Journal, 5 Sep. 2017
• According to the Torah, tithes are taken from the crops in two three-year cycles.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 16 Sep. 2024
• The church also has an app members can download to watch sermons, get updates and even tithe from their phones.
  — David Tarrant, Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2020
• Their tithes are distributed to each religious group according to the size of its flock.
  — The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019
• What's to stop con artists from demanding tithes or promoting criminal acts?
  — Scott Shapiro, WIRED, 8 Jan. 2024
• Instead of a tithe, the price for their admission to this sanctuary is $250 per month.
  — Katy Steinmetz, Time, 20 Apr. 2018
• The Bible and the Torah embrace the notion of a tithe, in which everyone sets aside a tenth of their earnings to give away.
  — Alyssa A. Dirusso, The Conversation, 30 July 2019
• Congregants say they were required to pay a minimum of 10 percent of their income in tithes.
  — Guthrie Scrimgeour, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2025
• After two of these cycles fully take place, the sabbatical year (the seventh year) occurs when no tithe is taken at all.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 31 Aug. 2020
• Destiny Church's bylaws call for the congregation to give away 10 percent of the tithes that come in each year.
  — Julie Zauzmer, Houston Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2018
• A lot of those people support white supremacy, and the SBC doesn’t want to lose those tithes and offerings.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 14 June 2017
• Every six years, the Norse in Greenland and Iceland paid a tithe to the Norwegian king.
  — Tim Folger, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
• Every six years, the Norse in Greenland and Iceland paid a tithe to the Norwegian king.
  — Tim Folger, Smithsonian, 29 Mar. 2017
• During the next six months, MacAskill and Ord enjoined their friends and other moral philosophers to pledge a secular tithe.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022
• The tithe, of course, refers to the tenth of one’s income that conservative Protestants are largely taught to pay to the church in gratitude for what God has done.
  — James Hudnut-Beumler, Washington Post, 6 July 2017
• This is representative of a historical offering called a tithe.
  — Tirion Morris, The Arizona Republic, 8 Dec. 2020
• Among other things, the agreement requires breakaway congregations to pay an additional tithe based on their income over the past 12 months.
  — Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online, 14 May 2023
• The payment of a tithe, 10 percent of a church member’s income, is one of the requirements for entering a temple once it is dedicated.
  — Anna Webb, idahostatesman, 27 Oct. 2017
• Nielsen's complaint is sharply critical of church leaders for continuing to ask for tithes, even from members who are struggling financially, while the church sits on a fortune.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 17 Dec. 2019
• That includes tithes; regular donations amounting to 10% of a person’s income expected from members of the church.
  — Mead Gruver, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2023
• The people of the capital city rail at the cost of living, the taxes imposed on electricity and gasoline, the tithes collected in the name of the war effort from all small businesses.
  — TIME.com, 19 Dec. 2017
• Some of the larger churches have begun using apps that allow members to pay their tithes using the information from their bank accounts online with either their computer or their cell phone.
  — David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 7 Apr. 2020
• In the unlikely circumstance that a ruler gave a gift to a peasant, the recipient was expected to give something back as a debt of gratitude — in the form of loyalty, a tribute or a tithe.
  — Diana Butler Bass, Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2017
• The Torah, immediately preceding the laws of the holidays in Deuteronomy, mentions the laws of giving tithes.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 7 Oct. 2019
• An additional 10 percent was designated for charitable giving or a tithe.
  — Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
• Dispute over church donations The dispute had centered on donations known as tithes, which are made when a church member donates 10% of their income to the organization.
  — Giles Hudson, CBS News, 24 June 2026
• While declining to discuss the extent of their holdings, church leaders have sought to explain the practice of continuing to collect tithes while accumulating financial reserves.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 17 Dec. 2019
• Later that month, a Gateway official announced in a video message to staff that the church was exploring layoffs in response to a 35-40% drop in congregational tithes.
  — Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Jan. 2025

tithe

2 of 2 verb

• My daddy was a saver who rarely spent anything, saved everything, and fully tithed at church plus extra.
  — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 27 June 2019
• Christians had settled for tithing 10 percent; for Unger, this was hardly a drop in the pond.
  — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
• But for houses of worship everywhere, the pandemic has changed the ways followers can tithe.
  — NBC News, 23 Dec. 2020
• Europeans who were employed by the studios would tithe 1% of their earnings to the fund, which dispensed stipends to needy émigrés.
  — Scott Eyman, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2020
• Some members are now asking why details about the fund have been tightly held for so long, what the money is for, and whether tithing so much to the church should still be the standard practice.
  — Rachael Levy, WSJ, 8 Feb. 2020
• Nativity’s 4,000 parishioners can tithe or donate by credit card, e-check, electronic funds transfer and even at electronic kiosks in the lobby.
  — Jonathan M. Pitts, baltimoresun.com, 6 Dec. 2019
• Mark Willes, Deseret Management's president and chief executive at the time, was reported to have said that no tithing money was used in the transaction.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 17 Dec. 2019
• The church also owns real estate worth billions of dollars, according to the complaint, which focuses on surplus tithing money and says that the church may have additional holdings not managed by Ensign.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 17 Dec. 2019
• According to persistent rumors, after King Constantine was deposed, a small group of wealthy Greek families tithed, in effect, for his benefit.
  — Michael Joseph Gross, Vanities, 27 Apr. 2018
• From churches now allowing congregants to tithe with digital coins to blogs promoting bitcoin as biblically sound, there’s an emerging Christian crypto subculture.
  — Bracey Harris, NBC news, 28 Mar. 2026
• The push coincides with an emerging Christian subculture, from churches allowing congregants to tithe with digital coins to blogs promoting bitcoin as biblically sound.
  — Kayla Hayempour, NBC news, 29 Mar. 2026
• The tenth child of a noble family, Hildegard was tithed to the Disibodenberg, a monastery nestled between two rivers in Germany’s Rhineland‑Palatinate region, when she was born.
  — Literary Hub, 18 Mar. 2026
• Ignoring the sisters' patrimony requires accounting for tithing in income qualification reviews of Medicaid recipients of all faiths, state officials said.
  — Fox News, 17 Apr. 2018
• For the monks or clerics, it is presented as a material substance, carried like a sack of gold on the demon’s back; the metaphors used are monetary or economic, as though the monks owe ordered syllables to God instead of the monetary tithe their vows of poverty render unnecessary.
  — JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2025