"sin" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

sin sustantivo

sin + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 6
Sin City • Sin embargo • sin tax • sin bin • Sin Eater • ...
sin + verbo
Kolokacji: 5
sin comes • sin forgives • sin commits • sin haunts • sin causes
verbo + sin
Kolokacji: 14
confess one's sins • commit the sin • sin is forgiven • atone for one's sins • pay for one's sins • ...
adjetivo + sin
Kolokacji: 37
original sin • deadly sin • mortal sin • great sin • past sin • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 10
(1) original, human, particular
Kolokacji: 3
(4) past, old
Kolokacji: 2
(5) greatest, ultimate
Kolokacji: 2
(6) terrible, heinous, dreadful
Kolokacji: 3
(8) secret, major, besetting
Kolokacji: 3
1. secret sin = potajemny grzech secret sin
2. major sin = główny grzech major sin
3. besetting sin = główny grzech besetting sin
  • Curiosity about such matters, as perhaps you have guessed, was always one of my besetting sins.
  • She felt keenly the satisfaction of seeing Madeleine charged with her own besetting sins.
  • My besetting sin is imagining too much and forgetting my duties.
  • But then, Diana, even ministers are human and have their besetting sins just like everybody else.
  • I dislike boredom, and curiosity has always been one of my besetting sins.
  • "Females are my besetting sin, I admit it."
  • He rang off and went on with his work, while Mary settled down to her besetting sin, the telephone.
  • My besetting sin, the way Tsion described it, was pride.
  • That's my besetting sin, you know, pride in healing.
  • That is my besetting sin," the priest sighed, "overweening pride.
(9) real, actual
Kolokacji: 2
(10) little, lesser, alleged
Kolokacji: 3
preposición + sin
Kolokacji: 15
of sin • from sin • in sin • with sin • for one's sins • ...

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