NOUN
- a gesture with the right hand moving to form a cross; used by Catholics as a profession of faith
How To Use sign of the cross In A Sentence
- Regina genuflected before the tabernacle and then knelt down on one of the pews, made the Sign of the Cross and began to pray silently.
- A yellow, smoky light filtered through as the priest chanted the opening prayers and made the sign of the cross.
- Do I imagine that by making the sign of the cross I can vaporize her? A MEANS TO EVIL
- The priest made the sign of the cross over the dead body.
- He quickly walked to it and before he entered into the pew, he genuflected and did the sign of the cross, the way his father had taught him so long ago.
- He crossbred visual panache and hedonistic flair, notably in "Sign of the Cross" (1932), with a lesbian dance sequence, a lithe Claudette Colbert bathing in milk, and Charles Laughton playing an extravagantly gay Nero. Review of "Empire of Dreams," Scott Eyman's biography of Cecil B. DeMille
- The priest blessed her, and made the sign of the cross over her.
- The priest made the sign of the cross over the dead body.
- It happed after this that a black bird, that is called a merle, came on a time to S. Benet and pecked with his bill at his visage, and grieved and noyed him so much that he could have no rest for it, and could not put it from him, but as soon as he had made the sign of the cross, anon the bird vanished away. The Golden Legend, vol. 3
- These priests, tempered in the fires of confessional, these judges who in that time of demonomania and murder had never heard more terrifying confessions, these prelates whom no depravity had ever astonished, made the sign of the Cross, and Jean de Malestroit rose and for very shame veiled the face of the Christ. Là-bas
