Example sentences for: preacher

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

  • In 1994, a Southern preacher named Joseph Chambers tried to get them banned under an old North Carolina anti-sodomy law.

  • On the northern coast of Eleuthera Island is Preacher’s Cave, the spot where the original adventurers are said to have been shipwrecked.

  • The momentum for change was growing, and in 1831 a black lay preacher named “Daddy” Sam Sharpe led a revolt of 20,000 slaves at Montego Bay.

  • 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.

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


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