How to Use the Sabbath in a Sentence

the Sabbath

noun
Definition of the Sabbathnext
  • But then there was a big row about the Sabbath name, all over again.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 6 June 2023
  • The justices heard the case of a postal worker who refused work on the Sabbath.
    — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 18 Apr. 2023
  • His life bore witness to the importance of the Sabbath.
    — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 1 Apr. 2024
  • However, in his frazzled state the Sabbath singer got confused and went to the wrong room to crash.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 27 Feb. 2023
  • An Orthodox Jew, David’s phone was turned off for the Sabbath.
    — Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Whether that be in the halls of a hallowed church or the stands of a football stadium, the Sabbath has a special meaning to us.
    — Taylor Crumpton, Essence, 16 May 2024
  • There were three Alabama shows scheduled for the Sabbath/Van Halen tour.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Its first opening lines were about getting ready for the Sabbath — cleaning the house, plucking the chicken for supper and such.
    — Barbara Isenberg, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2023
  • Everyone is owed a Sabbath, not just those who worship your way; the Sabbath is not only for you and yours but for all.
    — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2023
  • Licenses to open on the Sabbath are granted to bars and restaurants north of a particular street, but not south of it.
    — Gabby Sobelman, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Their large families gather on the Sabbath to stroll amid closed shops and quieted tram lines.
    — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Their large families gather on the Sabbath to stroll amid closed shops and quieted tram lines.
    — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Though, regardless of the fire’s provenance, there is still the separate issue of cooking on the Sabbath.
    — Benjamin Dubow, Longreads, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Meiner, who observes the Sabbath, also wasn’t able to attend.
    — Aaron Leibowitz, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Saturday is the Sabbath, Medina said, a day of rest and reflection, with no surrender to the seductions of the wired world.
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Groff observes the Sabbath on Sundays, and his religious beliefs prevent him from working on those days.
    — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2023
  • McCoy deeply respected his father, but the Sabbath became a problem between the two.
    — Bill Swank, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2024
  • Purim is different from some other Jewish holidays in that the laws of the Sabbath are not observed during the holiday.
    — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Indeed, the Sabbath was usually one of Hatzolah’s busiest times, possibly due to the overeating that was among the highlights of the day—heart attacks, strokes, ulcer flare-ups, complete prostration due to the cholent and the kugel.
    — Tova Reich, Harper's Magazine, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Despite the shootings, the bustling thoroughfare of Pico Boulevard was crowded Friday, with shoppers stocking up ahead of the Sabbath and worshipers going to and from morning prayers.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Stepping out of her apartment building’s underground shelter for a moment, Goldberg switched on her phone, normally kept off for the Sabbath, in order to check on her son.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
  • That said, Saturday’s attack on the Sabbath and Jewish holiday caught the country distinctly by surprise, adding to a sense of injury that could feed its response.
    — Ethan Bronner, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Videos of the Sabbath services captured jubilant students wearing yarmulkes and dancing.
    — Emma Goldberg, New York Times, 28 May 2024
  • Several local congregations had gathered there to mark the Sabbath that day.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 16 June 2023
  • When the new schedule took effect at Groff’s station in 2015, there were sufficient carriers available on Sundays, and Groff was exempted from those shifts to observe the Sabbath.
    — Ann E. Marimow, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Social distinctions did not rest on who kept the Sabbath — pretty much everybody did that — so much as on who peeled their potatoes on Saturdays, in order to more fully avoid labor on Sundays.
    — Alex Traub, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2024
  • But a decision in his favor may be less contentious than some of the court’s recent rulings on religion, in part because protecting the Sabbath may not divide Americans along the usual fault lines.
    — Adam Liptak, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Rather than write with a pen or pencil, which Jews are prohibited from doing on Yom Kippur and the Sabbath, worshipers designated what to give by bending a perforated tab.
    — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Talmudic law derived from biblical commandments forbids doing 39 kinds of work on the Sabbath.
    — Joseph Berger, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Project 2025 would also infuse Judeo-Christian values throughout our government, such as its proposal for the state to formally recognize the Sabbath.
    — Catherine Rampell, Washington Post, 9 July 2024

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