How to Use confession in a Sentence

confession

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  • I haven't gone to confession in three years.
  • She went to the police station and made a full confession.
  • The priest will hear confessions after mass today.
  • I have a confession to make: I have never done this before.
  • McAdam ordered that the confession be struck from the record.
    — Vanessa Arredondo, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2023
  • Turns out, the 45-year-old had her own confession to make.
    — Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 22 July 2024
  • Who could forget the dumpling confession that caused Pat to bolt off the stage?
    — Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 18 May 2022
  • The judge ruled Thursday the teen's confession could be used in court.
    — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 21 June 2024
  • Send in the best confession—anonymously, of course—and the cash prize was yours.
    — Deborah Cohen, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2022
  • As close to an on-the-record confession from the assailant as one was likely to find.
    — Jessica M. Goldstein, The New Republic, 1 July 2021
  • The film accused the police of beating a confession out of Crump.
    — Adam Bernstein, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The girls follow up their big night out with confession, like good Catholics.
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Daye croons, confession-like, on the almost five-minute-long track.
    — Meagan Jordan, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2021
  • That confession was read to each jury and judge who went on to sentence Owens to death.
    — CBS News, 20 Sep. 2024
  • In many towns, a shriving bell was rung to call villagers to confession.
    — Grace Linden, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023
  • And then of course, there was Greer's dashcam confession.
    — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 11 May 2024
  • The documents do not say what the Saudis did to elicit the confessions.
    — Justin Scheck, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Kim said in confession that the hardest part for Khloé will be losing her best friend.
    — Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 June 2022
  • The boys, known as the Central Park Five, were convicted on the grounds of coerced false confessions.
    — Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 5 July 2023
  • But days later, Smith's brother made a confession that blew the case wide open.
    — Christina Coulter, Fox News, 5 May 2024
  • In the end, the confession was not admissible in court.
    — Christina Dugan Ramirez, PEOPLE.com, 24 Feb. 2022
  • Galvin was called into the room and spent the next two hours silently recording Maria’s confession.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2022
  • At the time of the confession Whited did not know the date or year of the shooting and police struggled to tie the statement to Dailey’s death.
    — Eric Fleischauer The Decatur Daily, al, 7 July 2022
  • Then came the break in the case that law enforcement needed: Folkes’ confession.
    — oregonlive, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Geis told The Star that there are several factors that can lead to a false confession.
    — Katie Moore, Kansas City Star, 19 Apr. 2024
  • Loudon’s wife moved out of the couple’s home and cut off contact with him after his confession.
    — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 23 Feb. 2024
  • This is the central confession of our faith: Jesus has died, and Jesus is alive.
    — Lynne Silva-Breen, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Here's a confession, said Dominic Maxwell in The Times.
    — The Week, theweek, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Bieber made the confession to a close friend, who later leaked the information to the Daily Mail.
    — Bayliss Wagner, USA TODAY, 12 July 2022
  • The woman's description of Stratton's confession matched White's account of the crime, prosecutors said.
    — Landon Mion, Fox News, 2 Feb. 2025

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