Sinning is an English word with synonyms like offending or sin. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Sinning meaning
present participle and gerund of sin
Synonyms of Sinning
Using Sinning
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of sin
- Useful related words include: offending, sin, transgression, evildoing.
- In the example corpus, sinning often appears in combinations such as: sinning against, of sinning, sinning with.
Context around Sinning
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 4 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sinning
- In this selection, "sinning" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 19.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, avoid, secret, excessive, sweet and opens stand out and add context to how "sinning" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include against than sinning and ago was sinning. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sinning" sits close to words such as aaon, abbv and abdalla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sinning
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Is the CBI more sinned against than sinning? (8 words)
Everybody know that a little secret-sinning sweet too bad. (10 words)
Whoever perseveres in sinning opens the floodgates to everything that is evil. (12 words)
Generally speaking,* you are correct that if your conscience is the one telling you ‘Thou Shalt Not’, then you are sinning if you do not follow your conscience even if the Church is indifferent. (34 words)
The drama itself should "delight the eyes and ears, to rouse up and to affect the hearts of an audience, without the risk of sinning against reason or common sense". (30 words)
It is an awareness of God’s supremacy over us which urges us to revere him and avoid sinning against the Holy Spirit. (23 words)
Is the CBI more sinned against than sinning? (8 words)
Example sentences (13)
It is an awareness of God’s supremacy over us which urges us to revere him and avoid sinning against the Holy Spirit.
Is the CBI more sinned against than sinning?
The country star uploaded to YouTube an audio video of "Sinning With You" featuring a camp fire burning outside a house.
In other words, the star of the movie 10, Bo Derek, decades ago was sinning.
Everybody know that a little secret-sinning sweet too bad.
Generally speaking,* you are correct that if your conscience is the one telling you ‘Thou Shalt Not’, then you are sinning if you do not follow your conscience even if the Church is indifferent.
Sinning by silence, a cowardly act, instead of protesting, allows the cancer to persist and metastasize.
The Fordham scholar then presented Hell as merely a contraption used by clergy, Bible scholars and authors to frighten people into not sinning.
Sex may have the attributes of being sinless; however, when a person seeks sex for pleasure, he or she is sinning with lust.
The drama itself should "delight the eyes and ears, to rouse up and to affect the hearts of an audience, without the risk of sinning against reason or common sense".
The responsum also holds that traditionally-minded communities and individual women can opt out without being regarded by the Conservative movement as sinning.
This aspect, once more, had sharp antinomian implications was and used by the Sabbateans to justify excessive sinning.
Whoever perseveres in sinning opens the floodgates to everything that is evil.
Common combinations with sinning
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- sinning against 2×
- of sinning 2×
- sinning with 2×