How to Use confession in a Sentence

confession

noun

• I haven't gone to confession in three years.
• She went to the police station and made a full confession.
• The priest will hear confessions after mass today.
• I have a confession to make: I have never done this before.
• McAdam ordered that the confession be struck from the record.
  — Vanessa Arredondo, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2023
• The film accused the police of beating a confession out of Crump.
  — Adam Bernstein, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2023
• In many towns, a shriving bell was rung to call villagers to confession.
  — Grace Linden, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023
• The documents do not say what the Saudis did to elicit the confessions.
  — Justin Scheck, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2023
• The boys, known as the Central Park Five, were convicted on the grounds of coerced false confessions.
  — Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 5 July 2023
• Loudon’s wife moved out of the couple’s home and cut off contact with him after his confession.
  — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 23 Feb. 2024
• Though the confession sparked a lot of conversation, the post also had a few great looks for August.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 12 Aug. 2023
• Then, in December, the king made a confession to his subjects.
  — Teresa Xie, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2023
• Audience members were touched by the confession and flocked to the stage to offer the student money.
  — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 27 Feb. 2023
• In his confession, van der Sloot also said that two friends who were with him on the night of Holloway's death had gone home before the murder.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 24 Oct. 2023
• And finally, with a nod to William Ireland, a confession.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 7 July 2023
• Children are also three times more likely to make a false confession than adults.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 6 Feb. 2024
• The tearful confession proved to be too much for Aaliyah, who abruptly left the show just hours before Uche’s planned proposal.
  — Kailyn Brown, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2023
• With that confession seemingly out of the way, at least for the time being, questioning turned to the unpublished Sanders book.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 26 Feb. 2024
• Their voices join for a soulful confession of adult yearning, over George’s guitar, while Ringo plays the drums.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2023
• Authorities came to doubt the confession, and no deal was offered to that man, Somershoe said.
  — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 27 Oct. 2023
• After telling Miranda he was picked out of the lineup, Cooley asked him to pen a confession.
  — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 3 June 2023
• Authorities said Laraby's confession was riddled with errors that didn't match up to the facts of the case.
  — Michael Loftus, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2023
• Moore’s confession at last month’s panel is not the first time she’s admitted to her hatred of mashed potatoes.
  — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 18 Dec. 2023
• Days after Lord's death, Vigil appeared to make a confession on Snapchat.
  — Robert Anglen, The Arizona Republic, 16 Mar. 2024
• False confessions The Samaya case is not the first to shine a spotlight on Japan’s criminal justice shortfalls.
  — Takehiko Kambayashi, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 May 2023
• George Pell grew up attending Mass weekly and confession once a month.
  — Damien Cave, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2023
• Instead of letting Owen’s confession haunt him for the rest of his career, Hayes moves back to Ireland with his family to start over.
  — TIME, 14 Mar. 2024
• The best part about his confession, however, is that so many readers rushed to tell him how many great soups there are at Charlotte restaurants.
  — Melissa Oyler, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• Said confession happens later in the book, and—if his pen strokes crossing out this section of the script are an indicator—Herbert was not a fan of the change.
  — Max Evry, WIRED, 10 Jan. 2024
• The fictitious murder-confession song marks her first leader on the list, and completes a rare chart double; SOS has lorded over the Billboard 200 for the past four weeks.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 11 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024