Example sentences for: clerical

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

  • At the same time, advances in information technology have made it possible for the finance function to shift from a paperdriven, labor intensive, clerical role to a more consultative role as advisor, strategist, analyst, and business partner.

  • "Islamists consider Islam to be as much a religion as an 'ideology,' a neologism which they introduced and which remains anathema to the ulamas (the clerical scholars)."

  • "Jesuitical" originally signified "of or pertaining to the Jesuits; belonging to the Society of Jesus; Jesuit" ( OED , again), the Jesuits being the Roman Catholic clerical order founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1534 as an intellectual bulwark against the Reformation.

  • Nevertheless, and despite his reputation as a moderate liberal, Khatami, the son of an ayatollah, remains a product of Iran's Shiite Muslim clerical establishment.

  • As the finance function has evolved over the past decade, from a paperdriven, labor intensive, clerical role to a more consultative role as advisor, analyst, and business partner, many leading finance organizations have seen a corresponding shift in the mix of skills and competencies required to perform this new role.


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