How to Use cleric in a Sentence

cleric

noun

• The cleric called for the U.S. to end its support of Egypt and Israel.
  — Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2021
• Even so, the Archbishop of Canterbury is the head cleric of the church.
  — Lyndsey Matthews, Good Housekeeping, 19 Sep. 2022
• As many clerics are keen to point out, Christmas is about more than presents.
  — The Economist, 19 Dec. 2017
• Keeping the state out of the church’s business meant clerics lost the power to suppress heretics by force.
  — The Economist, 4 Nov. 2017
• And my father’s dad was Canon Elliott, who was a very famous cleric in the war.
  — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2024
• Zen was the former top Roman Catholic cleric in Hong Kong.
  — Nectar Gan, CNN, 11 May 2022
• Eleanor’s throat was slashed, and her letters to the married cleric were scattered around their corpses.
  — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2022
• Syed Sufi Gardezi, the most senior Shiite cleric in Gardez, put the death toll at 30.
  — Amir Shah, Fox News, 3 Aug. 2018
• 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
• 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
• Dozens of clerics who disagreed with these measures have been fired.
  — Justin Gest, Newsweek, 11 Feb. 2025
• Francis was a 12th century cleric known for his love of the poor and all creatures.
  — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 5 Oct. 2020
• Now the rest of the world would see how this humble cleric would reorganize the heavens.
  — National Geographic, 9 Apr. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Whatever the kings had done, the clerics wanted to reverse.
  — Rafia Zakaria, The New Republic, 23 June 2018
• 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
• In this staunchly Sunni city, trainee clerics now study Shia as well as Sunni schools of law.
  — The Economist, 28 Mar. 2018
• 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
• The Druze cleric who was accused has denied making the insult.
  — Amira El-Fekki‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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