How to Use Presbyterian in a Sentence

Presbyterian

1 of 2 noun

• Northwood Presbyterian Church is, in a sense, a kind of home.
  — Danny Nguyen, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2024
• Medics rushed him to NewYork-Presbyterian Queens, but he couldn’t be saved.
  — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 21 Aug. 2025
• How does the thought of a man from Presbyterian Scotland interact with Catholic social teaching?
  — Dominic Pino, National Review, 15 Dec. 2023
• The property is now owned by First Presbyterian Church of Dallas.
  — Dallasnews.com Staff, Dallas News, 15 June 2023
• At about noon, firefighters were notified of a second fire at First Presbyterian Church, located on the same block.
  — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 25 May 2023
• Duncan has been a minister for 27 years and is the pastor at the Mira Mesa Presbyterian Church.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Jan. 2024
• He was taken to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, police said.
  — Mark Osborne, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2023
• Among the parents challenging the law are two Jewish rabbis, a Jewish cantor, a Presbyterian reverend and a Baptist pastor.
  — Jenna Sundel gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
• Gabe, a 42-year-old who also declined to give her last name, took her 2-year-old daughter to walk through the streamers and banners set up at Philadelphia Presbyterian Church.
  — Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 5 Mar. 2024
• Bickers will give a free solo organ recital to celebrate Village Presbyterian’s 75th anniversary March 1 at the church.
  — Patrick Neas, Kansas City Star, 23 Feb. 2024
• Unlike its sprawling neighbor, Riverside Church, a few streets over, Broadway Presbyterian stands humbly on a fraction of sidewalk, with a mere four stairs leading up to its fire-engine-red doors.
  — Paige Williams, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025
• The community is also home to Hopewell Presbyterian Church, established in the mid-18th century, the church’s website says.
  — Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 14 Feb. 2024
• In 1983, Scott graduated from Stall and went to Presbyterian College on a football scholarship.
  — Robert Samuels, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2023
• The church, the school and the families – among them the parents of the children killed – then asked for involvement in the case, with Covenant Presbyterian saying its intervention was warranted to protect its interests and employees.
  — Alta Spells, CNN, 25 May 2023
• The one-night-only reading of All the President’s Men was in support of CWP’s efforts to save the historic West Park Presbyterian Church.
  — Raven Brunner, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
• Proceeds support Sycamore Presbyterian Preschool, Lesotho Nutrition Initiative and Hope's Closet.
  — Caroline Ritzie, The Enquirer, 3 Sep. 2025
• Islam’s father, Abdur Rob, suffered a minor heart attack after rushing to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell and being told that his son had not survived the mass shooting.
  — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 18 Aug. 2025
• Before Big Sky play, Sac State will take part in the Empire Classic that includes their first-ever matchup with Presbyterian as well as bouts with two in-state powerhouses in UCLA and Cal.
  — Sean Campbell, Sacbee.com, 7 Aug. 2025
• Having a politician deliver a sermon at Trinity is rare, church leaders said, and came about as Talarico pursues a master’s degree in divinity at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary.
  — Olivia Olander, Chicago Tribune, 17 Aug. 2025
• The article queried 12 other Baltimore clergy, representing Lutheran, Baptist, Presbyterian, and Methodist churches.
  — Time, 7 Aug. 2025
• The Mature Adult Ministry at Solana Beach Presbyterian Church (SBPC) is dedicated to creating meaningful opportunities that encourage spiritual growth, lifelong learning, and overall well being.
  — Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2025
• Across from Couloak Drive project, there’s a rezoning petition from RED Partners under Tryon Advisors, LLC, for 70 to 85 for-sale townhomes along with a daycare center at Cooks Memorial Presbyterian Church.
  — Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 19 Aug. 2025
• The union, Local 32BJ of the Service Employees International Union, requested the Justice Department investigate New York Presbyterian over claims that anti-competitive behavior kept hospital prices high.
  — Ken Alltucker, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2025

Presbyterian

2 of 2 adjective

• My dad was a Presbyterian minister, for 40 years or something like that….
  — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 13 Feb. 2024
• The pastor at a nearby Presbyterian church wondered if an animal had died in the ductwork.
  — Eric Boodman, STAT, 18 Apr. 2023
• But in Columbia, around 85 people sit in the pews of the small Presbyterian church to hear what the panelists have to say.
  — Sophie Hills, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Aug. 2023
• Police said no motive has yet been established for the shooting at the school, which is an academy within a Presbyterian church.
  — Emily Wax-Thibodeaux, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2023
• Diane was a legal secretary and raised her three sons in a strict Presbyterian household, per Esquire.
  — Skyler Trepel, Peoplemag, 8 Feb. 2024
• At one point, their numbers were large enough that a Presbyterian church on Pacific Street gave services in their language.
  — Jonathan Lethem, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
• Van Wart ultimately sold his land to buy a farm and became a respected chorister in a local Presbyterian church.
  — Christopher Kuo, New York Times, 21 July 2023
• The group was led by Charles Taze Russell, a religious seeker from a Presbyterian background.
  — Mathew Schmalz, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2023
• Wilson’s father was a Presbyterian minister, and Wilson read the Bible daily.
  — Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 21 May 2026
• Baptist and Presbyterian preachers were fined and jailed by local authorities for preaching without licenses.
  — Corey D. B. Walker, The Conversation, 9 Mar. 2026
• Since the congregation voted to break away, the pro-United Methodist faction has begun holding services at a local Presbyterian church.
  — Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online, 24 June 2023
• At one Presbyterian church in a quiet neighborhood, a musician played a mournful flute and faith leaders spoke as dozens of residents and TV cameras gathered.
  — Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2023
• She was raised in a Presbyterian household in Santa Barbara, where her father insisted that the family pray before every meal and sang hymns with the children before bed.
  — Nina Chhita, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
• As the race moves ahead, Talarico, a Presbyterian seminarian, has made his faith central to his campaign, and Republicans have seized on it as a line of attack.
  — Joseph Morton, Dallas Morning News, 14 Mar. 2026
• Some took aim at Talarico, a Presbyterian seminarian from Austin.
  — Sarah Bahari, Dallas Morning News, 26 Mar. 2026
• Thomas Craighead, a Presbyterian pastor and Princeton graduate who had moved to the area only four years earlier, was named president of the institution.
  — Angele Latham, The Tennessean, 10 Aug. 2025
• Having grown up in the Presbyterian church, one of four children of Malawian immigrants, Anjimile found the news drove an irrevocable wedge between him and his mother.
  — Jeff Gage, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2023
• The events of the Clearances catalyze the action in this novel, which begins with John, a Presbyterian minister, having accepted a commission to sail to a remote island and evict its last tenant.
  — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 6 May 2026
• There's actually a playlist that was developed by New York-Presbyterian hospital that provides songs with a tempo that match the appropriate timing of chest compressions.
  — The Enquirer, 7 Jan. 2023
• His father, Max Belz, was a grain elevator operator before becoming a Presbyterian pastor.
  — Michael S. Rosenwald, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2024
• The indictment also charged him with 45 counts of violating a federal hate crimes law by attacking church congregants because of their Taiwanese national origin and Presbyterian faith.
  — Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2023
• The 36-year-old former teacher and Presbyterian seminarian bets voters will embrace his softer style over Crockett’s aggressive anti-Trump approach.
  — Bill Barrow, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2026
• Talarico is a Presbyterian seminarian and often incorporates faith into his public messaging.
  — Faith Bugenhagen, Austin American Statesman, 25 Mar. 2026
• Early life, education, and career One of four children of a Presbyterian minister, Applewhite moved frequently throughout his childhood while his father founded and built churches throughout Texas.
  — Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 Mar. 2026
• In 2014, while posting on Facebook against Israel’s bombing of Gaza, Shaw received an official complaint lodged at Presbyterian headquarters.
  — Philip Metres august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
• In the early 19th century, Presbyterian minister Sylvester Graham promoted a restrained lifestyle led by a high-fiber, vegetarian diet.
  — Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 19 Aug. 2025
• Her father was a Romanian immigrant of Jewish heritage who converted to Christianity and became a Presbyterian minister.
  — Louie Estrada, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2023
• The church elders welcomed the soft-spoken, articulate Latino whose maternal grandfather, Abraham Fernandez, was a Presbyterian minister.
  — Richard J. Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 May 2026
• Years after a violent shooting shattered their Presbyterian church community, an impending deportation forces two Korean-American families to confront the limits of their forgiveness.
  — Hilary Lewis, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2026
• Presbyterian minister and longtime director of 174 Trust, a community organization serving North Belfast, Reverend Bill Shaw grew up in the loyalist Sandy Row neighborhood of Belfast.
  — Philip Metres august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025