SAINT in a Sentence

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For SAINT, below is one of 69 sentences:
I joined my wail to theirs, loud and bitter; but Joseph asked what we could be thinking of to roar in that way over a saint in heaven.

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 Meanings and Examples of SAINT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
saint
 v.  hold sacred
 n.  a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization
Classic Sentence: (56 in 4 pages)
1  You can't play the saint on me any more, that's one sure five.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
2  He came of an old and illustrious Spanish family and you remember that he was one of the first followers of saint Ignatius.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
3  For just and unjust, for saint and sinner alike, may this retreat be a memorable one.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
4  The book which he used for these visits was an old neglected book written by saint Alphonsus Liguori, with fading characters and sere foxpapered leaves.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
5  The director had begun to speak of the dominican and franciscan orders and of the friendship between saint Thomas and saint Bonaventure.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
6  And let you, Stephen, make a novena to your holy patron saint, the first martyr, who is very powerful with God, that God may enlighten your mind.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
7  Now, we can return to our old friend saint Thomas for another pennyworth of wisdom.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
8  Puzzled for the moment by saint John at the Latin gate.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
9  His own neighbour was Mrs. Vandeleur, one of his aunt's oldest friends, a perfect saint amongst women, but so dreadfully dowdy that she reminded one of a badly bound hymn-book.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
10  One hardly knew at times whether one was reading the spiritual ecstasies of some mediaeval saint or the morbid confessions of a modern sinner.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
11  "I always said she was a little saint," added Meg, as if there could be no further doubt of it.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE
12  I'm not jealous, dear, do your best, only don't make a saint of him.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
13  Well, I needn't be a sour saint nor a selfish sinner, and, I dare say, old maids are very comfortable when they get used to it, but.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
14  How much of him was saint, how much mortal, I could not heretofore tell: but revelations were being made in this conference: the analysis of his nature was proceeding before my eyes.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
15  I joined my wail to theirs, loud and bitter; but Joseph asked what we could be thinking of to roar in that way over a saint in heaven.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
Example Sentence:
1  A man alone is either a saint or a devil.
2  His wife must have been a saint to put up with him for all those years.
3  Chiswick church is dedicated to St Nicholas, patron saint of sailors.
4  An open door may tempt a saint.
5  He looks like a saint but the devil he is.
6  She must be a real saint to stay with him all these years.
7  Unfortunately the public conflated fiction with reality and made her into a saint.
8  In fear of death, the quiet saint or sage is dying all his life.
9  THE choice of the name, Francis, by the new Pope, is a stroke of genius; St Francis of Assisi is perennially the Catholic Church's most popular saint.
10  All are not saints that go to church.
11  The modern founder of Pantheism, Benedict Spinoza, was a man of pure and saintly character, a gentle recluse from the world, lovable and blameless.
12  This medieval painting depicts its saintly character with aureole around head.
13  He was, of course, both humane and probably even saintly, but like another giant of history, he was also a shrewd and smoothly manipulative politician with a keen strategic grasp of pragmatic possibilities.