How to Use Presbyterian in a Sentence
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Northwood Presbyterian Church is, in a sense, a kind of home.
—Danny Nguyen, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2024
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Medics rushed him to NewYork-Presbyterian Queens, but he couldn’t be saved.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 21 Aug. 2025
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How does the thought of a man from Presbyterian Scotland interact with Catholic social teaching?
—Dominic Pino, National Review, 15 Dec. 2023
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The property is now owned by First Presbyterian Church of Dallas.
—Dallasnews.com Staff, Dallas News, 15 June 2023
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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
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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
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He was taken to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, police said.
—Mark Osborne, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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In 1983, Scott graduated from Stall and went to Presbyterian College on a football scholarship.
—Robert Samuels, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2023
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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
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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
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Proceeds support Sycamore Presbyterian Preschool, Lesotho Nutrition Initiative and Hope's Closet.
—Caroline Ritzie, The Enquirer, 3 Sep. 2025
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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
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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
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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
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The article queried 12 other Baltimore clergy, representing Lutheran, Baptist, Presbyterian, and Methodist churches.
—Time, 7 Aug. 2025
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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
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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
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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
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My dad was a Presbyterian minister, for 40 years or something like that….
—Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 13 Feb. 2024
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The pastor at a nearby Presbyterian church wondered if an animal had died in the ductwork.
—Eric Boodman, STAT, 18 Apr. 2023
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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
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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
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Diane was a legal secretary and raised her three sons in a strict Presbyterian household, per Esquire.
—Skyler Trepel, Peoplemag, 8 Feb. 2024
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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
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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
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Some passengers were taken to Elmhurst and Queens Presbyterian hospitals, the source said.
—Jay Blackman, NBC news, 23 Mar. 2026
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The group was led by Charles Taze Russell, a religious seeker from a Presbyterian background.
—Mathew Schmalz, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2023
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Wilson’s father was a Presbyterian minister, and Wilson read the Bible daily.
—Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 21 May 2026
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Baptist and Presbyterian preachers were fined and jailed by local authorities for preaching without licenses.
—Corey D. B. Walker, The Conversation, 9 Mar. 2026
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Leo is to preside over a peace meeting involving a Mankon traditional chief, a Presbyterian moderator, an imam and a Catholic nun.
—ABC News, 16 Apr. 2026
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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
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Leo presided over a peace meeting involving a Mankon traditional chief, a Presbyterian moderator, an imam and a Catholic nun.
—Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2026
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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
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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
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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
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Some took aim at Talarico, a Presbyterian seminarian from Austin.
—Sarah Bahari, Dallas Morning News, 26 Mar. 2026
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Talarico, 36, is a Presbyterian seminarian who quotes Scripture and rarely raises his voice.
—ABC News, 4 Mar. 2026
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The message was about taking care of one another — a seed Dyer has worked hard to plant and grow since leaving his electrical engineering career more than a decade ago to become a Presbyterian minister.
—Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026
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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
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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
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Talarico is a Presbyterian seminarian who has made his Christian faith and values central to his political identity.
—Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2026
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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
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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
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The following year, in Logan County, in the southern part of the state, a Presbyterian minister named Barton Stone attended a revival meeting on the edge of a prairie.
—Michael Luo, New Yorker, 14 June 2026
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Tour the Town Founded in 1837, alongside its namesake Presbyterian school, Davidson’s heart lies in its picturesque downtown, which sits just a block from the hum of collegiate life.
—Brennan Long, Southern Living, 7 July 2026
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His father, Max Belz, was a grain elevator operator before becoming a Presbyterian pastor.
—Michael S. Rosenwald, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2024
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In the 1930s, his wife, Ruth Bell Graham, had attended high school there, on a sprawling Presbyterian mission compound on Pyongyang’s west side.
—Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2026
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Jane Ragsdale’s best friend Christine Chenoweth, a pastoral counselor and former Presbyterian minister, says the South Fork of the Guadalupe is now lousy and wrecked and haunted.
—Karen Valby, Vanity Fair, 16 June 2026
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