How to Use faith in a Sentence

faith

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  • She says that her faith has given her the courage to deal with this tragedy.
  • It requires a giant leap of faith for us to believe that she is telling the truth.
  • Lending him the money to start his own business was an act of faith.
  • Our faith in the government has been badly shaken by the recent scandals.
  • His supporters have accepted his claims with blind faith.
  • Nothing is more important to her than her faith in God.
  • Of course, Svein’s leap of faith wasn’t a stab in the dark.
    — Clarke Murphy, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2022
  • These songs were made right on the cusp of my loss of faith.
    — Andy O'Connor, SPIN, 18 Jan. 2022
  • Should fans have faith in the team on the field this season?
    — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 July 2022
  • In both cases, the towns fell back on a bedrock of faith.
    — Lauren Caruba, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Dec. 2017
  • First, has the debtor made a good-faith effort to repay the loans?
    — Ron Lieber, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2020
  • But the omnibus bill posed a much stronger test of faith.
    — T.a. Frank, The Hive, 30 Mar. 2018
  • The role of the faith groups was well represented on the dais.
    — Clarence Williams, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The Chiefs are putting a lot of faith in an old status quo.
    — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 3 July 2018
  • But faith in the face of such loss was not always easy.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Each seed that goes into the ground is an act of faith.
    — Star Tribune, 13 Mar. 2021
  • That takes a kind of faith, and Jeymes Samuel seems to have it in abundance.
    — Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Keeping the faith, at that point, would be quite the challenge.
    — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 23 Aug. 2019
  • The leap of faith has been worth it, with only a few downsides.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 9 Aug. 2021
  • The answer is the full faith and credit of the U.S. government.
    — WSJ, 18 Oct. 2023
  • All of those people took their time and just showed me such faith.
    — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 13 Oct. 2021
  • May this Islamic year find you in the best of faith and health.
    — Manal Aman, Woman's Day, 12 June 2023
  • The faith of the people in their government is at stake.
    — al, 9 Dec. 2020
  • Just to be clear to the reader, the book is about faith, not religion.
    — Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The song sits in the grey that people of faith are afraid to live in, but identify with.
    — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 5 Mar. 2024
  • At its core, this faith is about how to love your neighbor.
    — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 10 July 2022
  • Said’s actions should not be tied to his faith, Ahmed said.
    — Dallas News, 30 Aug. 2020
  • Taking a leap of faith can pay off big time, so speak your truth.
    — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The kind of faith that makes a man a murderer for doubting it.
    — Robert Evans, Rolling Stone, 27 Jan. 2024
  • But that’s not quite how the bad-faith dealing went down in real life.
    — Robert Daniels, Vulture, 25 Nov. 2021

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