Examples of seminary in a Sentence

a seminary exclusively for women some claimed that orphanages were seminaries of sin and petty crime, turning out juvenile delinquents by the score

Recent Examples on the Web There was no one who contended or cried out, or drew attention to what was going on, but by degrees the woody swamp became a hermitage, a religious house, a farm, an abbey, a village, a seminary, a school of learning, and a city. — Andrew Doran, National Review, 3 Mar. 2022 One esteemed teacher at Yeshiva University’s rabbinical seminary, Rabbi Hershel Schachter, wrote an open letter deeming Rabbi Krauss unqualified to render such decisions and calling the rabbinical court’s rulings invalid. — New York Times, 14 Feb. 2022 During his brief time at the seminary, Johnson had studied Latin and Greek. — Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2022 Founded in 1834, the university was the first seminary in the U.S. to welcome female students, the first to establish a center for Muslim-Christian relations and the first to start an Islamic chaplaincy program. — Seamus Mcavoy, courant.com, 13 Oct. 2021 Here was an ivory-tower man-bites-dog tale that elicited some context about the ascendancy of secularism, both at a particular institution (one founded, almost four centuries ago, essentially as a seminary) and in the culture at large. — Nick Paumgarte, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2021 Until last year, John Henry Newman, as he is known by his baptismal name, was studying to become a priest at a Roman Catholic seminary in Yangon. — New York Times, 30 Mar. 2022 At 17, Stanislavskyy left his home country for Connecticut to study at St. Basil College, a seminary in Stamford for Ukrainian Catholics. — Seamus Mcavoy, courant.com, 11 Mar. 2022 Ruiz attended high school in Illinois at a minor Franciscan seminary named St. Joseph’s. — Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Feb. 2022 See More

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