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Example sentences for: reverend

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

"I don't for one moment think that what he's been doing has been simply for the public relations," said the reverend with unaffected simplicity.
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.
I handed the amber nectar back to the Reverend Father.
The Reverend Dr. Bowdler is no doubt chortling in his grave.
' Similarly, reverend means `one who is to be revered,' ordinand is `one who is to be ordained'; an old standby of crossword compilers, deodand , is a `thing to be given to God,' and legend is `something to be read.