How to Use blessing in a Sentence

blessing

noun
  • He said a blessing before the meal.
  • We asked the Lord's blessing on us and on our project.
  • Presumably he was acting with the government's blessing.
  • They got married without their parents' blessing.
  • The Facebook group has been a blessing for Johnson’s efforts.
    Steve Almasy, CNN, 29 Dec. 2022
  • The one blessing in disguise could be Narbonne players using their time off to focus on school.
    Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2024
  • And for those of us who still pack a backup pair of wired headphones, the inclusion of a headphone jack (getting rarer in tablets) is a blessing.
    Paul Schrodt, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Ford recently told Uproxx that reuniting with Quan was a blessing.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Families and friends — many of them mothers, wives, sisters and girlfriends of former Lorton inmates — tell him the film has been a blessing.
    Eddie Dean, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Soccer remains Brazil’s blessing and its curse, a glorious distraction from its daunting challenges and its dazzling potential.
    Reed Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2022
  • But for Miller and the church, the money was a blessing.
    La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 11 July 2024
  • So that was a big blessing to get that, and that’s not easy to get.
    Max Gao, Variety, 6 Oct. 2024
  • And it’s been a huge blessing to be here for this long.
    Chris Biderman, Sacramento Bee, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The Danza Azteca group performed the ground blessing to end the event.
    Austindedios, oregonlive, 30 Apr. 2023
  • Friends was and is a blessing to so many people around the world.
    David Janollari, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Christine gave me the blessing to do that with her own face and hug.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Your love and support for this show has been one of the great blessings of my life.
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 20 June 2024
  • But doing my yard work with the hat wet was a blessing.
    Hillary Maglin, Travel + Leisure, 12 July 2023
  • Haylee and Shawn Ladner, 26, of Purvis called the births a true blessing from God.
    Joshua Williams, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The rarity of the disease is both a blessing and a curse.
    Ebony Flake, Essence, 5 June 2024
  • To be able to watch it so many years later is such a blessing.
    Jason Lamphier, EW.com, 11 May 2023
  • In a way, playing this game Week 1 is a silent blessing.
    Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Sep. 2023
  • At that time there was only one drug, but the blessing is, now there are over 40.
    Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The Flavor asked them if their hometown was a blessing or a curse.
    Gary Campbell, SPIN, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The goal: Recruit enough people to push yourself to the center of the board, or blessing loom.
    Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 28 July 2023
  • With his blessing, Thein and her team began scrambling to right the ship.
    WIRED, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Robbie has given Gaga her blessing to take a crack at the role.
    Brendan Morrow, The Week, 8 Apr. 2023
  • And when the wine was poured and the blessing was said, his big brother Elai, 26, tacked on a prayer for his safe return.
    Richard Engel, NBC News, 3 Nov. 2023
  • So, to have been able to survive and thrive is an immense blessing.
    Bianca Alysse, Men's Health, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The delay proved to be a blessing in disguise as the pandemic soon sent the world into lockdown giving time for the Obi-Wan Kenobi script to be reworked.
    Caroline Reid, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024

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