Below you will find example sentences with "virgin mary". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Virgin Mary in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: mary
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 11
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 28.9 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 3 start, 10 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "virgin mary" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 28.9 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as the blessed virgin mary, ad the virgin mary appeared to, blessed, jesus and mother stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with virgin islands, mary magdalene, queen mary, mary magdalene and saint mary, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with virgin mary
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Penrhys in Wales is home to Virgin Mary's Holy Well. (11 words)
A traditional Catholic prayer, the Hail Mary asks for the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary. (16 words)
Video of the Virgin Mary display would have required a very high-tech digital team to create. (17 words)
It should be noted that Christians all over the world will be celebrating the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (BVM) or simply the birthday of Mary, the Mother of our savior Jesus Christ, as well as our Heavenly Mother. (43 words)
Angelus prayer in Latin with the crowd gathered below in St. Peter’s Square, the Pope gave a shoutout to volunteers Radio Maria Italy who held up a long banner inviting everyone to place themselves “under the mantle” of the Blessed Virgin Mary. (43 words)
The Felician Sisters were founded in Poland on Nov. 21, 1855 during the Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary by Mary Angela Truszkoska, who knelt before an image of the Blessed Mother and consecrated herself totally to God. (41 words)
Example sentences (20)
While many think the Immaculate Conception refers to Jesus’s conception by the Virgin Mary, it actually honors the way in which the Virgin Mary’s herself was conceived.
The name of the Virgin Mary, Soumela, comes from the tale of how, in the late 4th Century AD, the Virgin Mary appeared to monks Sofronios and Varnavas.
The Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, celebrated annually on November 21st, commemorates the presentation of the Blessed Virgin as a child by her parents in the Temple in Jerusalem.
On top of it lay a 656-foot-tall aluminum statue of a winged version of the virgin Mary, known locally as the Virgin of Quito.
The myths refer to a beast with one horn that can only be tamed by a virgin ; subsequently, some writers translated this into an allegory for Christ's relationship with the Virgin Mary.
It should be noted that Christians all over the world will be celebrating the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (BVM) or simply the birthday of Mary, the Mother of our savior Jesus Christ, as well as our Heavenly Mother.
A traditional Catholic prayer, the Hail Mary asks for the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
The Felician Sisters were founded in Poland on Nov. 21, 1855 during the Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary by Mary Angela Truszkoska, who knelt before an image of the Blessed Mother and consecrated herself totally to God.
Rather the ancient scriptures hailed women like Sarah, the Queen of Sheba, Ruth, Esther, the Virgin Mary, and Mary Magdalene, all empowered in their own right.
At Albert's request, Pope Innocent III dedicated the Baltic countries to the Virgin Mary to popularize recruitment to his army and the name "Mary's Land" has survived up to modern times.
The subject depicts the story in the Gospel of Luke when Elizabeth, the cousin of the Virgin Mary visits Mary, who is like herself also pregnant.
According to the Bible, John the Baptist was the cousin of Jesus who ‘leapt’ in his mother’s womb when she was told that Virgin Mary would give birth to Jesus.
Angelus prayer in Latin with the crowd gathered below in St. Peter’s Square, the Pope gave a shoutout to volunteers Radio Maria Italy who held up a long banner inviting everyone to place themselves “under the mantle” of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
In his Angelus message, he entrusted South Sudan’s peace process to Our Lady of Africa, reminding the crowd that the Virgin Mary is the Queen of Peace.
In the film’s only attempt at irony or humor, Lourdes is revealed as a rather embarrassing tourist attraction, replete with a “Hotel Bernadette” that features a gift shop for souvenirs of the Virgin Mary.
Penrhys in Wales is home to Virgin Mary's Holy Well.
Singer Sabrina Carpenter had hired the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Brooklyn, New York, as the backdrop for her new single Feather.
Some called it the “Lourdes of America” in honor of the French shrine where the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared followed by healings.
To prove that they were not practitioners of Christianity, a forbidden religion at that time, they were forced to trod on an image of Jesus or the Virgin Mary.
Video of the Virgin Mary display would have required a very high-tech digital team to create.