Example sentences for: bishop

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

  • The Old Testament scenes, such as Abraham Sacrificing Isaac, are more lively than the rigidly formal Emperor Justinian and Empress Theodora, with their court retinue, and Christ between two angels, St. Vitalis, and, far right, Bishop Ecclesius holding a model of the church.

  • Diego told her of his sick uncle and of the request from the bishop.

  • Gosport (Hampshire) does not have a name meaning God's port, referring to a 12th-century French bishop who took refuge from a storm here.

  • It’s believed that the lights held by the bishop and the women of the city fooled the British forces in the bay into assuming that Spanish reinforcements had arrived.

  • This information he derived from The Nightjar Yesterday and Today , by Margaret Grainger and Richard Williamson (West Sussex Institute of Higher Education, Bishop Otter College), a source I have been unable to verify.


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