How to Use cleric in a Sentence
cleric
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The cleric called for the U.S. to end its support of Egypt and Israel.
—Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2021
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Even so, the Archbishop of Canterbury is the head cleric of the church.
—Lyndsey Matthews, Good Housekeeping, 19 Sep. 2022
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As many clerics are keen to point out, Christmas is about more than presents.
—The Economist, 19 Dec. 2017
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Keeping the state out of the church’s business meant clerics lost the power to suppress heretics by force.
—The Economist, 4 Nov. 2017
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And my father’s dad was Canon Elliott, who was a very famous cleric in the war.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2024
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Zen was the former top Roman Catholic cleric in Hong Kong.
—Nectar Gan, CNN, 11 May 2022
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Eleanor’s throat was slashed, and her letters to the married cleric were scattered around their corpses.
—Tom Nolan, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2022
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Syed Sufi Gardezi, the most senior Shiite cleric in Gardez, put the death toll at 30.
—Amir Shah, Fox News, 3 Aug. 2018
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Program staff members were concerned about the depiction of the holy site, and had the artist meet with a cleric.
—Carol Rosenberg Gabriella Demczuk, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2022
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Sistani, the most powerful cleric in Iraq, is in his 90s and believed to be in poor health.
—Mohamad Bazzi, Foreign Affairs, 13 Sep. 2022
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Dozens of clerics who disagreed with these measures have been fired.
—Justin Gest, Newsweek, 11 Feb. 2025
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Francis was a 12th century cleric known for his love of the poor and all creatures.
—Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 5 Oct. 2020
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Now the rest of the world would see how this humble cleric would reorganize the heavens.
—National Geographic, 9 Apr. 2019
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For weeks, officials implored clerics to shut down crowded Shiite shrines to halt the spread of the virus.
—Nasser Karimi, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Mar. 2020
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Even as a cleric in charge of Iran’s judiciary, Mr. Raisi has sought to cast himself as a man of the people.
—WSJ, 19 June 2021
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As the blazing sun dipped below the horizon, rumors of a new announcement from the cleric were swirling.
—Mustafa Salim, Washington Post, 21 June 2022
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The prison system, which did not have Muslim cleric on staff, said non-prison staff would not be allowed in the chamber.
—Kim Chandler, Star Tribune, 12 Feb. 2021
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The outspoken Islamist cleric has been a thorn in the side of the ruling al-Saud family for decades.
—Saphora Smith, NBC News, 26 July 2019
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Whatever the kings had done, the clerics wanted to reverse.
—Rafia Zakaria, The New Republic, 23 June 2018
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The first face of the revolution to become its leading icon was, of course, not a soldier but a cleric.
—Amir Ahmadi Arian, The New York Review of Books, 30 Sep. 2020
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In this staunchly Sunni city, trainee clerics now study Shia as well as Sunni schools of law.
—The Economist, 28 Mar. 2018
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Her father, a cleric, found her a match, a man from the same village in Rakhine who is working as a carpenter in Malaysia.
—Hannah Beech, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2020
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The Druze cleric who was accused has denied making the insult.
—Amira El-Fekki, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
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In the 1970s, Banisadr met Khomeini, a friend of his late father, who had also been a cleric.
—The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 10 Oct. 2021
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The sixth round of those talks adjourned in June, just days after the election of a hardline cleric to be Iran’s new president.
—Nicole Gaouette, CNN, 6 Aug. 2021
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For more than a decade, the 51-year-old cleric has seen as a potential successor to his father's throne.
—Hollie McKay, Fox News, 8 Dec. 2020
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At the apex of his career, the cleric was so popular that shops sold DVDs of his speeches, and many Lebanese used lines from them as ringtones.
—Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2024
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None of the clerics at Jaranwala mosques could be reached to confirm the allegation about the loudspeakers.
—Asim Tanveer and Munir Ahmed, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2023
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This one is about a cleric named Chih and an old woman, Rabbit, who tells them stories about an empress.
—Veronica Roth, Peoplemag, 18 June 2024
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But by the end of the 11th century, with the help of powerful European leaders called the Holy Roman Emperors, a series of reform-minded clerics were named pope.
—Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 15 Jan. 2025
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