Example sentences for: preacher

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

  • This particular foible may have been initiated by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82), who had been a preacher before concentrating on being an important literary man.

  • Her claims to fame: A onetime prostitute, she founded a brokerage house, ran for president, championed free love, and brought down the preacher Henry Ward Beecher by publicizing a sex scandal involving him.

  • Teeth will be provided, the preacher answered.)

  • We learn that Hickman, a Baptist preacher known as "God's Trombone," was the only father Sunraider ever had.

  • Actor-director-writer Robert Duvall's film--about a Pentecostal preacher who beats his wife's lover into a coma--is deemed "the best movie ever about a man of God" (David Denby, New York ). The film's strength is said to be its uncompromising psychological complexity: It shows the preacher as both very good and extremely evil, without lapsing into moral condemnation.


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