How to Use benediction in a Sentence

benediction

noun
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  • He dismissed the congregation with a benediction.
  • The moon rose over the mountain and Kay gave a kind of benediction.
    — Beth Thames | Bethmthames@gmail.com, al, 9 Sep. 2020
  • The melody is fond and gentle; the song sounds like a benediction.
    — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 8 May 2017
  • This night and this project would be more than a benediction.
    — Holly Gleason, Variety, 2 June 2023
  • On that recent night, Spinks and Brenda made it in time for the benediction and found seats in the balcony.
    — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2020
  • The poem is, in some ways, a homage or benediction for those who did not survive the crossing.
    — Daniel Olivas, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2022
  • After the speeches, the songs and the benediction from the Senate chaplain, the sergeant at arms staff led the mother and children to the casket.
    — Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Worshipers began writhing as if in pain, others waved their hands in the air in benediction.
    — Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Like seraphs’ wings, these white flowers fan out beyond the edges of the canvas in a silent gesture of benediction.
    — Colin B. Bailey, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
  • How sad Shelton did not live long enough to see the cultural benediction.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 24 May 2021
  • To be able to cook is itself a kind of benediction—an acknowledgment that there is food that can be prepared, and a place to make it in.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2020
  • Then my grandfather exploded, in a way that did not end with a change-of-heart benediction.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2022
  • Beauty can be a trap as much as a benediction, including for men.
    — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2020
  • In Laos, as Buddhist monks in orange robes walk the dirt and asphalt streets of the capital, B-52 bombers rain free-world benediction upon the forests.
    — Siddhartha Deb, The New Republic, 25 Aug. 2020
  • Chavez put her head down during the closing benediction and touched her palms together in prayer.
    — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Even the interior scenes are brushed with a golden light, and sometimes that light feels like a benediction.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 7 Jan. 2022
  • The painting portrays Jesus as the savior of the world, holding a crystal orb and raising his right hand in benediction.
    — Megan Friedman, Town & Country, 10 Oct. 2017
  • Instead of bitterness, the sisters offered up a benediction: May the games be blessed!
    — Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2023
  • Yet many of the images, served up as an abstract dreamscape during the film’s latter stretches, amount to a benediction.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 24 May 2018
  • What benediction is possible for soot-faced proles shunned by God and man?
    — Tadzio Koelb, New York Times, 11 May 2018
  • Viewed that way, the night’s awards benediction was little more than a formality.
    — Vulture, 13 Mar. 2023
  • As the sun rose over Florida just beyond them, a man with a tattoo on his arm of a hand making the sign of the benediction began recording a video on his phone.
    — Seth Freed Wessler, ProPublica, 7 Dec. 2023
  • My next guest will be delivering the benediction at the embassy Jerusalem on Monday.
    — Fox News, 12 May 2018
  • The event traditionally ends with a benediction — a solemn toast — but Pacino rewrote the rule book.
    — Tim Gray, Variety, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The ceremony, which lasted about an hour, included a reading from the Gospel, a sermon, and a benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.
    — Nicholas Rowan, Washington Examiner, 27 Mar. 2020
  • His 1955 studio portrait of her — Joan of Arc haircut, hand raised in self-amused benediction — is the show’s earliest picture and a true beauty.
    — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2018
  • The ceremony will close with a benediction followed by a white dove release.
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 May 2022
  • The ending is one of the most wrenching spiritual benedictions in all of cinema.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2020
  • Carminati and a fellow priest recited the rite of the dead, with a Psalm and Scripture reading, and gave each coffin a final benediction and blessing with holy water.
    — Maria Grazia Murru and Nicole Winfield, Star Tribune, 30 Sep. 2020
  • The National Anthem will also be performed, as well as a benediction.
    — Steve Smith, courant.com, 1 Sep. 2021

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