Example sentences for: cleric

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

  • 1) Moderate Arab countries that boycotted a U.S.-sponsored conference last month are attending a global Islamic conference hosted by Iran, whose supreme cleric opened the meeting with a denunciation of the United States and its military presence in the Persian Gulf.

  • Omari, for example, is believed to have been a student of a radical Saudi cleric named Sulayman al Alwan.

  • In the first contested election in Indonesia's history, the assembly selected Abdurraham Wahid, a moderate Muslim cleric, as president.

  • Large-scale conversions were led by Martin de Tours, a soldier turned cleric.

  • The Washington Post and New York Times lead with the surprising result of Indonesia's first truly contested presidential election in nearly 50 years: the victory (in a vote taken in the national legislature, not among the general public) of a first-time office-holder, an aging, frail, and nearly blind Muslim cleric named Abdurrahman Wahid.


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