How to Use denomination in a Sentence

denomination

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  • The kidnappers asked for bills in small denominations.
  • It's one of the more conservative denominations.
  • She spoke with people of many different political denominations.
  • People from several different religious denominations participated in the event.
  • Methodists, Baptists, and other Christian denominations.
  • The gift certificates are available in $5 and $10 denominations.
  • ToursByLocals' e-gift cards are available in any denomination, valid for any tour on the site.
    — Jordi Lippe-McGraw, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
  • The percentage of those who have either received the vaccine or plan to soon varies greatly by religious denomination.
    — Arkansas Online, 24 Apr. 2021
  • Overall, the raw percentages belonging to each denomination haven’t changed much since 2013.
    — Ben Sales, sun-sentinel.com, 11 May 2021
  • The church is the world headquarters for the Church of God in Christ, the second largest Black denomination, and holds 7,500 people.
    — CBS News, 1 Feb. 2023
  • In the past two decades, the denomination has shrunk by some half a million people.
    — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 30 June 2024
  • Priests and lay leaders in the Catholic Church – the largest denomination in the Holy Land – are not uniform in their thoughts about the conflict and the path forward for their church.
    — Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 27 June 2024
  • Yet the whole denomination is on the verge of splitting wide open so some can simply slam those wide doors shut.
    — John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 24 May 2022
  • Here is a short list of Christian heavyweights the world lost in 2023 who shaped the culture across denominations.
    — Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 23 Dec. 2023
  • The two stamps came in two designs, one for each denomination.
    — Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 1 July 2023
  • The denomination has grappled for years with how to deal with those facts and compensate for the damage.
    — Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 7 July 2022
  • The idea stems from a loophole in a 1997 law that grants the Treasury the authority to mint platinum coins of any denomination.
    — Sarah Ewall-Wice, CBS News, 22 Jan. 2023
  • Basically, there is a loophole in the law that could allow the U.S. to mint a coin of any denomination if it’s made of platinum.
    — Josh Boak, Fortune, 9 May 2023
  • The money, of course, is of much larger denominations for Aiyuk.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 25 July 2024
  • The denomination’s statement of faith says the office of pastor is for men only.
    — Deepa Bharath and Peter Smith, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 June 2022
  • Christy and Bryan had left their denomination for the more liberal United Church of Christ.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2022
  • So, in 2022, a splinter denomination was born: the Global Methodist Church.
    — Laura Bullard, Vox, 14 May 2024
  • The church stands on one of the holiest sites in the Christian faith, and is a place of pilgrimage, regardless of which denomination a person may belong to.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 9 July 2024
  • The idea is that the Treasury could mint a coin of a large denomination, such as $1 trillion, deposit the coin in its bank account at the Federal Reserve and pay its bills that way.
    — Siobhan Hughes, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2021
  • From coast to coast, members of the Christian denomination fanned out in cities and towns Thursday to share literature and converse about God for the first time since March 2020.
    — Deepa Bharath, ajc, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The Synod is the highest governing body in the denomination.
    — Holly V. Hays, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Jones, who was the youth minister at Lester Memorial for seven years, decided to stay with the denomination and help with the new church start.
    — Greg Garrison | , al, 29 June 2023
  • Slots in Nevada have a win percent ranging from 5% to 10% depending on the denomination of the machines.
    — Ryan Randazzo, The Arizona Republic, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Throughout the Asolo denomination, that adds up to a warmer sense of heftiness in both fruit and winemaking, nuances and possibilities being worked out now.
    — Susan H. Gordon, Phd, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The good news: This historic city offers travelers of all denominations the opportunity to find their footing.
    — Hannah Selinger, Travel + Leisure, 9 July 2024

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