Example sentences for: confessor

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

  • Oprah is the confessor, that's how.

  • His daughter having noticed that the death-warrant was expected from London, attired herself in men's clothes, and twice attacked and robbed the mails (between Belford and Berwick), which conveyed the death-warrants; thus, by delaying the execution, giving time to Sir John Cochrane's father, the Earl of Dundonald, to make interest with Father Peter (a Jesuit), King James's Confessor, who, for the sum of five thousand pounds [something like $5 million today], agreed to intercede with his Royal Master in favour of Sir John Cochrane, and to procure his pardon; which was effected.

  • Surely that blood bath--and the hundreds like it in those years--couldn't have been far from the mind of William Bradford Huie, a journalist and Ray's confessor, when Huie claimed in a 1968 Look magazine article that King's well-placed killers "wanted to use King's murder to trigger violent conflict between white and Negro citizens."

  • Like his past careers as Bill Clinton's savior, confessor, accuser, and pundit-translator, Morris' latest incarnation is an act.


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