Sentence examples for be sinful to from inspiring English sources

While I'd usually prefer a selection of small plates — which best show off the chef's creativity — it would be sinful to skip any of the above-mentioned entrees.

He was quoted as saying it was sinful to use condoms and have abortions.

"It's sinful to covet your own son, Mary," replies the other Mary.

In the middle of a booming postwar economy, they acted as if it were sinful to desire frivolous things.

More important, perhaps, is the need to scotch the notion that, in a poor country, it is sinful to trade gold.

The psychologist Philip Tetlock has shown that the mentality of taboo — a conviction that some thoughts are sinful to think — is not just a superstition of Polynesians but a mind-set that can easily be triggered in college-educated Americans.

He also procured a decree from a government-financed committee of Yemeni religious scholars declaring that it is sinful to protest against the state and that security forces are "fighting for the sake of God".

Why shouldn't he absolve someone who frankly admits that he doesn't feel it's sinful to consider that love is a gift given by God?" Crocetta's confessor was a priest named Luigi Petralia.

I had no role models; it wasn't until years later that I found out about Mrs. Butterworth's decades-long relationship with Mrs. Paul, and even today Christian fundamentalists preach that it's sinful to pour maple syrup on fish sticks.

The police -- the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice -- stopped men who tried to rescue the girls or open the school gates, telling them "it is sinful to approach" the girls because they weren't wearing head scarves and abayas, the traditional robes, and there could be no exposure of "females to male strangers".

Many people in the Muslim-majority nation believe it's sinful to be in contact with a dog.