How to Use ecclesiastical in a Sentence

ecclesiastical

adjective

• Have jokes been told about me by my teachers, or my bosses, or my ecclesiastical leaders?
  — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Aug. 2021
• But those who visit San Jose also have the chance to take in some ecclesiastical grandeur.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2022
• But the chapel, heavy with the scent of ecclesiastical incense, felt as genuine as could be, worn from nearly two centuries of worship.
  — Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 15 May 2026
• Long, ecclesiastical sleeves draped over my hands, signaling virtue, pageantry, and a sense of occasion.
  — Vogue, 4 Apr. 2022
• Sanction was first used in a religious context, to mean a law or ecclesiastical decree.
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Apr. 2022
• The church also states that at least one of the prospective newlyweds must be a member in the leader’s ecclesiastical unit.
  — Kaitlyn Bancroft, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 June 2021
• Hollas is believed to be the first person in the country to be given a national ecclesiastical role of this kind.
  — Adeel Hassan, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2019
• Reuters reports that the priest, who was dressed in black ecclesiastical vestments and a silver pectoral cross, shouted loudly enough for the pope to hear him.
  — Grayson Quay, The Week, 4 Dec. 2021
• The church argued that Miday should have dismissed it based on the ecclesiastical doctrine.
  — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 19 Jan. 2023
• Carey's airy vocal runs throughout the track keep it exciting, while the backing choir cements the song's ecclesiastical core.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 5 Oct. 2020
• Pretty quickly, this pay-to-pray arrangement gave way to a less ecclesiastical approach.
  — D. T. Max, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
• Colman Domingo also did a quick change, switching from a checkerboard look to mega-sized blue cap with large gold ecclesiastical collar.
  — Merle Ginsberg, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• The ecclesiastical loopholes that explain her choices are less important than the unheeded despair that compels her to make them in the first place.
  — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 18 June 2024
• The changes deal specifically with church penal sanctions; other parts of canon law — the church’s vast set of ecclesiastical rules — remain unchanged.
  — Washington Post, 1 June 2021
• Barely seven feet high, the door opens into a small, shaded vestibule that ends in another door, this one leading to a bright, sunlit courtyard hemmed in by ecclesiastical walls.
  — New York Times, 18 Feb. 2021
• His ecclesiastical caftans are a reflection of a man with Zeus-like carriage and human self-consciousness.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2023
• That sign is a particular version of an ecclesiastical hat that was worn in processions as late as 1870.
  — Karen Farkas, cleveland.com, 11 July 2017
• But the ecclesiastical debate has also served as a proxy for battles over politics, power and the future of the Catholic Church.
  — New York Times, 17 Nov. 2021
• Its achievements were many and notable; it was also followed by ecclesiastical upheavals that continue to roil the Church today.
  — George Weigel, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2022
• The rooms feel austere and indulgent, while Italian flea market finds rub shoulders with bespoke pieces crafted with an ecclesiastical bent.
  — Paul Jebara, Travel + Leisure, 18 Oct. 2024
• However, John Prevost offered some insight into how his younger likes to take a break from weighty ecclesiastical issues when the two get a chance to talk.
  — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 9 May 2025
• The Rooms Laid out over three floors—each with soaring, ecclesiastical cross-vault ceilings—rooms are spacious and chic, each with a varying but superb vistas.
  — Nicole Trilivas, Travel + Leisure, 2 Sep. 2025
• The overall result is a series of spaces that explore themes rooted in ecclesiastical pageantry, and the power that’s conveyed through the clothing and visual arts of a monarch or empire.
  — Laurie Brookins, Travel + Leisure, 21 Feb. 2026
• Developed in an age when most worshippers couldn’t read Latin, flowers provided a bridge between the ecclesiastical world and that of the everyday.
  — Kim Sajet, Smithsonian, 21 Feb. 2018
• For those not versed in Catholic vocabulary, a diocese is an ecclesiastical district within the Catholic Church.
  — New York Times, 30 Jan. 2021
• Like in a baroque painting, each was frozen in an expression of ecclesiastical grief, faces contorted, while the receiver to the red line lay in Hendrickson’s limp, upturned palm.
  — Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 5 Feb. 2024
• These final days of Lent, constituting the most solemn season of the ecclesiastical year, will commemorate the passion and death of Christ.
  — From Staff Reports, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 2 Apr. 2026
• The Church has a 24-hour abuse help line to help leaders understand and meet both their professional and ecclesiastical obligations to report abuse.
  — oregonlive, 8 Jan. 2020
• Church doctrine cited The defendants had argued that the doctrine of ecclesiastical abstention should prevent the suit from moving forward.
  — Giles Hudson, CBS News, 19 Nov. 2025
• Dickens was set to be buried in Rochester Cathedral, at the direction of the Dean and Chapter (the ecclesiastical governing body).
  — Leon Litvack, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Feb. 2020