"saint" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Clara Hale, who began rescuing children off the streets in 1941, has long been a secular saint.
- She is elevated to the iconic status of a secular saint and Bill looks like the troublemaker.
- She is thus a kind of secular saint.
- Gandhi is a kind of secular saint here, but his ideals are admired more in principle than in practice.
- If he were killed, ordinary people would wonder why the United States had refused to help a secular saint in his hour of need.
- Is the Consul meant to be a kind of secular saint?
- I wanted to be a saint, well, a sort of secular saint.
- The ranks of secular saints, like those of religious ones, are often filled by martyrs.
- Nelson Mandela nearly got to the status of a secular saint, for example.
- "They've put a halo around my head and turned me into a sort of secular saint," he said with a slightly embarrassed laugh.
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