Example sentences for: reverend

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

  • On another subject, lest a reader be misled into assuming that Skeat was a bishop by the facetious heading, “The Invariably Right Reverend Walter W. Skeat [OBITER DICTA, XVIII, 1], it should be pointed out that Right Reverend is the customary title for that rank in the Anglican Communion.

  • I'm sure his cause was a noble one and everything, and I don't want to go on and on about this simply because the good reverend's noted skills at making love to the camera have been exhaustively remarked upon elsewhere, but it sounds like this incident was notable even by his standards.

  • To supplement E. T. Henry's “Nifty Nomenclature” [XVI,4], my English wife (nee Hume ) from Beckenham offers the intelligence that when she was a child, her doctor's name was Death (pronounced “DEETH”), her dentist's name was Screech, her schoolteacher's name was Kenshitt , and the local pastor was Reverend Long who married a Miss Shorter.

  • Your article on the Reverend Walter W. Skeat [XVIII,1] was interesting midway through the first column on page 18; in the fourth paragraph of Skeat's reply, the article becomes positively fascinating:

  • The (invariably) Right Reverend Walter W. Skeat


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