How to Use denomination in a Sentence

denomination

noun
  • 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.
  • That share could be in the denomination of a unit of housing.
    — Roger Valdez, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
  • That share could be in the denomination of a unit of housing.
    — Roger Valdez, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
  • As far as the wine, don’t be turned off by the Burgundy denomination.
    — Washington Post, 20 Jan. 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
  • Venezuelans thronged the banks to get rid of the notes, but the promised larger denominations never showed up.
    — The Economist, 12 July 2018
  • 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
  • There’s more value to giving than the denomination of the bill.
    — Karina Bland, azcentral, 29 Nov. 2019
  • 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 Methodist Book of Discipline does not spell out a process for churches to exit the denomination.
    — Sam Whiting, SFChronicle.com, 24 June 2018
  • 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
  • Many of the Sephardim, like the area’s Jewish population as a whole, stand apart from any denomination.
    — Nina Shapiro, The Seattle Times, 29 May 2019
  • Christy and Bryan had left their denomination for the more liberal United Church of Christ.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Large factions of the denomination wanted to show love to all, and large factions never did.
    — John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 8 Jan. 2020
  • So, in 2022, a splinter denomination was born: the Global Methodist Church.
    — Laura Bullard, Vox, 14 May 2024
  • And to be sure, the story of rock in 2024 is largely a story of Southern rock, in both classic-rock and indie-rock denominations.
    — Will Hermes, Rolling Stone, 15 Dec. 2024
  • The holiday is observed by many Christian denominations through fasting, church services and reflection, though its observance in the U.S. varies significantly across states and sectors.
    — Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025
  • In a brief survey, Christians were told the percentage of Christian leaders nationally, and among their denomination specifically, who accepted that human activities cause climate change.
    — Gregg Sparkman, The Conversation, 2 Apr. 2025

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