Example sentences for: bishops

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

  • The paper said he had thus put himself in opposition to about 70 percent of the bishops in Germany.

  • Towards the end of the first millennium the land we now call the Netherlands was ruled by a number of feudal lords — assorted counts, dukes, and bishops who had total power over the land and the people who lived on it.

  • Non-Italian bishops urged the Church to carry out its own reform, hoping to democratize relations with the pope.

  • The Covenanters faced severe persecution at the hands of the king’s supporters, who had decided to follow his father’s policy of imposing bishops on the Scots.

  • There were, for example, British bishops at the Council of Arles, in 314.


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