Example sentences for: clergyman

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

  • Were they the daughters of a clergyman who surely admired neither Carole the Cad one-time King of Romania, nor Noël Coward; but perhaps yearned for sons?

  • But I doubt this particular dishonesty will keep him out of heaven, since it is imposed on every politician--and even every clergyman with ambitions.

  • The subjects of this anthropology looked at Yeats' stylish black London suit--he was always a careful, "poetic" dresser--and took him to be a proselytizing clergyman.

  • A Bro Purvis is a libidinous clergyman, named after an evangelist who once whipped both of our husbands into a frenzy of desire when we were visiting a fundamentalist church with relatives.

  • It offers a case in point from one of the 17 volumes of The Lives of the Saints , a massive work written between 1872 and 1889 by Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924), the English clergyman who is best remembered as the author of the hymn, “Onward, Christian Soldiers.”


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