Example sentences for: cleric

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

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

  • "We like to think of ourselves as content providers," I heard a cleric say recently about his line of work, a comment that I took to be knowingly ironic but which could also have been a sincere and pathetic attempt to be with it.

  • The arrests of Salameh, Abouhalima, and Ayyad led the FBI to the Farouq mosque in Brooklyn, where a central figure was Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, an extremist Sunni Muslim cleric who had moved to the United States from Egypt in 1990.

  • He and the cleric Azzam had joined in creating a "Bureau of Services" (Mektab al Khidmat, or MAK), which channeled recruits into Afghanistan.

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


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