How to Use lector in a Sentence

lector

noun

• In the play, a lector, well dressed and well mannered, reads to workers rolling cigars in nineteenth-century Tampa.
  — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017
• Lily Henry is an altar server, lector and teacher in the parish faith formation classes.
  — cleveland, 30 Sep. 2022
• Delgado also is a parishioner, serving as a lector and extraordinary minister of the Holy Eucharist.
  — Mort Mazor, sun-sentinel.com, 24 Dec. 2020
• The floor has a space where a lector, in the early 1900s, would read a variety of texts from classic literature to the daily newspaper to keep workers entertained while working.
  — Jennifer Simonson, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Aug. 2021
• Eggar was active as a lector/lay minister at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Beverly Hills and at Saint Francis de Sales Parish in Sherman Oaks, leading weekly meditations until the pandemic.
  — Chris Koseluk, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025