How to Use minister in a Sentence

minister

1 of 2 noun

• The minister called him to the front of the church after the sermon to introduce him to the lawmaker.
  — Ken Tran, USA TODAY, 27 Aug. 2023
• Vaishnaw, the railways minister, and others waved as the train rode down the tracks.
  — Ivan Watson, CNN, 5 June 2023
• Not so long ago, that analogizing was the work of shamans, imams, and ministers.
  — Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
• The ministers of what is called OPEC+ may decide to reduce production to try to boost the price of crude.
  — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Nov. 2023
• That caused a lot of outrage because of the statement Bezalel Smotrich, the finance minister, made about wiping out Huwara and so on.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2023
• The campus minister did not respond to a request for comment.
  — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 3 Aug. 2023
• India's sport minister Anurag Thakur has said the police are investigating the case and has urged athletes to have faith in the probe.
  — Emma Ogao, ABC News, 3 June 2023
• The Saudi minister said the kingdom was committed to the protection of civilians.
  — Matthew Lee, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2023
• The announcement of the OPEC+ deal was delayed by several hours as ministers haggled over the details.
  — Grant Smith, Fortune, 4 June 2023
• Not just about the provocative encounter on the high seas, but also the snub from the Chinese defense minister who seemed happy to meet with other U.S. allies.
  — Jamie McIntyre, Washington Examiner, 8 June 2023
• Israeli minister Benny Gantz called for elections to be held in September, two years before Netanyahu's term is set to end.
  — NBC News, 4 Apr. 2024
• Spartz said the friction between Prigozhin and Russia’s minister of defense was already playing out.
  — Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 25 June 2023
• Before that, his government had been a swirling revolving door of ministers.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2024
• The Globe reported last year that the church paid for research which identified 219 people who were owned by ministers and members of the congregation.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 25 Mar. 2024
• Blair, the public safety minister, said hundreds of soldiers had been deployed across the country to help with firefighting efforts.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2023
• Ukraine’s deputy defense minister, Hanna Maliar, said on Telegram that troops were encountering enemy fire and mined fields in the south.
  — Niha Masih, Washington Post, 18 June 2023
• As the protests turned into violence again, police used tear gas and water cannons to keep farmers and some 250 tractors at bay, even as ministers met to push through measures meant to calm the crisis.
  — Raf Casert, Fortune Europe, 27 Mar. 2024
• In 2017, Modi’s finance minister Arun Jaitley proposed the electoral bond plan in response to the influx of untraceable cash in elections.
  — Anant Gupta, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024
• Scores of rescuers and trekkers have been deployed to search for people trapped by the landslide, which occurred late Wednesday night, the state’s deputy chief minister, Devendra Fadnavis, tweeted.
  — Chicago Tribune, 21 July 2023
• In early December, in fact, Gallant, the defense minister, threatened to open up a second front against Hezbollah if the group didn’t remove its Radwan units from the border.
  — Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 21 Dec. 2023
• Three deaths have so far been confirmed, according to the chief minister, but authorities were still confirming the data.
  — Sophia Saifi, CNN, 3 Oct. 2023
• In Italy, 21 senators raised the issue with the country’s health minister last summer, and demanded to know how the government would take action to protect children from bad drugs.
  — Rosa Furneaux and Laura Margottini — Tbij, STAT, 25 Jan. 2024
• According to the church website, the small congregation often had to share a minister with another church or, at times, had no minister at all.
  — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 21 July 2023
• An architect and urban planner, Voltaire is a former minister for Haitians living abroad.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2024
• In fact, Ivan Eskildsen, the erstwhile minister of tourism for Panama, predicts the country’s visitor numbers will exceed 500 million over the course of five years.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Sep. 2023
• Unitarian minister Edmund Sears at a Wayland, Mass. church wrote it in 1849.
  — TIME, 19 Dec. 2023
• He was later appointed minister for health, a top cabinet post, in a major vote of confidence from Enda Kenny, then the taoiseach.
  — Megan Specia, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2024
• Up to three Chinese ministers are expected to travel to Washington in the coming weeks as the two countries have begun discussing issues like trade and climate change.
  — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 17 July 2023
• Christian ministers John Hagee and Mark Biltz linked a series of four total lunar eclipses with an apocalyptic prophecy.
  — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2023
• The problems of Palestinian governance need more than piecemeal reforms, new laws, or a yet another set of ministers.
  — Raja Khalidi, Foreign Affairs, 19 Mar. 2024

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minister

2 of 2 verb

• Anyone who shows contempt for the judge or for the priest who stands ministering there to the Lord your God is to be put to death.
  — Alex Cuadros, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
• Gavin Rogers, who ministers to the homeless as part of his work at Travis Park Church, has had to adjust.
  — Elaine Ayala, ExpressNews.com, 4 Apr. 2020
• At the same time, Mother Teresa died – someone who was a saint, ministered to the homeless, and the poorest in the world.
  — Chuck Dauphin, Billboard, 4 Apr. 2018
• There are at least 42 times in the record of his ministry where Jesus ministered to one person.
  — Loren A. Yadon, idahostatesman, 8 Apr. 2018
• Now a no-nonsense rural priest who ministers to the poor of the countryside.
  — Tufayel Ahmed, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2016
• Cabaret fragrance and were ministered to by make-up artists to flourish our costumes.
  — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 22 Mar. 2019
• Coco Gauff of Florida may be younger than some of the ball kids ministering to her.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 6 July 2019
• Now she was married to Pereira’s son, also a pastor, who ministered to gang members in the northeast of Brazil.
  — Alex Cuadros, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
• For example, our priests are barred from ministering to soldiers in the Army.
  — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Apr. 2019
• His love and compassion for God’s children was his drive to travel around the world to minister to those who were willing to listen.
  — Brendel Hightower, Detroit Free Press, 17 Apr. 2020
• An order of Catholic priests, the Jesuits will continue to sponsor the school and send their members to minister at Brebeuf.
  — Arika Herron, Indianapolis Star, 21 June 2019
• His name was J.W. Schaeffer, and he was laid up in his hotel room being ministered to by doctors.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2017
• Rather than focusing on building the city, Joseph's main concern is that his guest’s every need is ministered to.
  — John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press, 1 Mar. 2018
• And now, my calling is primarily to minister at the Haven of Rest, Akron’s Christian city mission.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 6 Dec. 2021
• Malcolm X spent 12 years ministering across the country and bringing awareness to the Nation of Islam.
  — Stephanie Toone, ajc, 21 Feb. 2020
• Borns returned to his South Dallas neighborhood and tried to minister to the homeless and downtrodden.
  — Jennifer Emily, Dallas News, 13 May 2021
• Churches that have spent the past few weeks collecting food, clothing and toys for families around the world are ministering to those in need every day.
  — Wilborn P. Nobles Iii, NOLA.com, 25 Dec. 2017
• So for young and old alike, as the novel coronavirus spreads, the task at hand is to see and minister to the vulnerabilities from which our culture has trained us to avert our eyes.
  — Bonnie Kristian, TheWeek, 18 Mar. 2020
• Hart, who ministers to churches in Virginia Beach and Chesapeake, knew the procession was a terrible sign.
  — Jim Morrison, Washington Post, 6 June 2019
• Staffers were running to and fro, ministering to the elderly patients, but there seemed to be too little of everything: ice, water, fans.
  — Glenn Garvin, miamiherald, 22 Sep. 2017
• Despite the changes since the first train arrived 130 years ago, Abita Springs' spring still bubbles, and there is no shortage of spas throughout the parish to minister to those seeking all manner of curative treatments.
  — Contributing Writer, NOLA.com, 17 Dec. 2017
• After all, the Torah had previously described Yehoshua as ministering to Moshe.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Jewish Journal, 10 July 2017
• Several years ago, Kolbe Ministries started reaching out to churches north of Houston to join with them to minister inside area prisons.
  — Jamie Swinnerton, Houston Chronicle, 12 Feb. 2020
• The Bulldogs spent five days on the trip and visited orphanages, distributed food, helped construct houses and ministered to young children, while teaching them more about the great game of baseball.
  — Samford Athletics, AL.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• The grand jury scrutinized abuse allegations in dioceses that minister to more than half the state's 3.2 million Catholics.
  — Fox News, 2 Oct. 2018
• For safety's sake, their congregations were kept away from in-person services for months, but the need to minister to them only intensified.
  — Luis Andres Henao, Star Tribune, 11 Mar. 2021
• For Bornstein, ministering to Trump's health has been a family business.
  — Author: Kyle Swenson, Anchorage Daily News, 2 May 2018
• Mahoney once described herself as a good walker who would minister to people in her parish neighborhood by visiting them on foot.
  — Richard Chin, Twin Cities, 16 Jan. 2017
• In her lifetime Shirley ministered in 41 different nations throughout the world, both as a teacher and an intercessor.
  — orlandosentinel.com, 7 Aug. 2019
• Brandner said a diocesan official told him Highfill would no longer be allowed to publicly minister in Las Vegas.
  — Ramon Antonio Vargas, NOLA.com, 19 Aug. 2020

Last Updated: 3 May 2024