Example sentences for: bishop

How can you use “bishop” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • On the last night of the siege, devout local women, led by their bishop, marched through the streets of old San Juan in a torchlight parade praying for deliverance.

  • The papers agree that Monday in East Timor, anti-independence gangs took control, forcing the United Nations to evacuate half its staff, running off the region's Nobel Peace Prize-winning bishop, shooting up the Australian ambassador's residence, burning homes, and shooting and terrorizing the general populace.

  • On the second try Juan Diego saw the bishop, his story was heard and questioned, but was not believed.

  • St. Augustine describes with amazement how the great Ambrose, bishop of Milan, could follow the written text with his eyes even as "his voice and tongue stayed still."

  • By the beginning of the fourth century the Algarve had a bishop in place, based in Faro.


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