How to Use parsonage in a Sentence
parsonage
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As do the moors that stretch behind the parsonage.
—Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
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As do the moors that stretch behind the parsonage.
—Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 26 June 2026
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Or that the church, its hall and parsonage once sat in open countryside.
—Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 23 July 2022
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The fire was on the second floor of the parsonage, the official said.
—Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 17 May 2024
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Jerome Jankowski lives directly south of the church in a home that was once the parsonage.
—Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 23 Mar. 2017
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At the end of 2016, our church decided to sell our parsonage in town.
—Sam Boyer, cleveland, 1 Nov. 2019
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The parsonage, or pastor's house, is connected to the church building.
—Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 17 May 2024
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The church’s parsonage also appeared to be undamaged, and no one was home at the time, according to the post.
—Natalie Davies, Freep.com, 7 Mar. 2026
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The parsonage in which Astrup grew up figured prominently in his works over his career.
—John Oseid, Forbes, 28 June 2021
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The parsonage, built in 1914, houses the church offices, which have been moved upstairs.
—al, 15 Sep. 2022
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The painting, which consists of oil on wooden panels, is of the garden at the parsonage where his father served as pastor.
—Giovanni Legorano, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2021
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Following the break from the church, the Jonas family moved out of the parsonage house and into a two-bedroom home.
—Ilana Frost, Peoplemag, 21 Mar. 2023
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Located four doors down from MLK’s parsonage, the house was a haven for freedom riders.
—The New Republic, 16 Aug. 2023
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The white supremacist group set off a bomb in his parsonage in 1956, damaging the home.
—Howard Koplowitz | [email protected], al, 21 Sep. 2020
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The white supremacist group set off a bomb in his parsonage in 1956, damaging the home.
—Howard Koplowitz | [email protected], al, 24 Sep. 2020
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Across the street at the church parsonage, 95 Cemetery Road, the regular monthly tag sale will take place.
—courant.com, 4 Aug. 2021
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There’s also no state limit on parsonage tax exemptions and 28 clergy homes in the state are worth more than $1 million.
—Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Dec. 2021
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The adjoining parsonage is now two apartments and that conversion was a snap compared to what it’s taken to retrofit the main church, its steeple and set of bronze bells.
—Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 27 Jan. 2024
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The parsonage exclusion came up in the Warnock/Walker senate runoff in Georgia.
—Peter J Reilly, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
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In the center of Hebron is Gale House, which was built in 1824 and has been used over the decades as a home and a parsonage.
—Susan Dunne, courant.com, 24 Mar. 2022
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Antwon Mans, 36, is ordained as a pastor and lives in a former church parsonage with his wife Cynthia, 39, and children.
—Amy Huschka, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2019
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Reinterring the remains near the monument will remove them from the front yard of the church parsonage of Iglesia Biblica Berea.
—Tribune Media Services, al, 19 Jan. 2020
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Church plants the seed
Carmel United Methodist's pantry, which had its beginnings 25 years ago in a closet, now has its own home in the church's former parsonage.
—Maureen C. Gilmer, Indianapolis Star, 1 June 2017
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Bishop Otterbein, then 85 years of age and in ill health, did not wish to leave his four-room cottage and directed that the new parsonage be rented and the money given to the poor.
—Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 11 Sep. 2021
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Hunter grew up in Methodist parsonages throughout Kentucky until the Shorts moved to Nashville in 1944.
—Sun-Sentinel.com, 29 Apr. 2018
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Now there are, of course, there's something called a parsonage exception where members of the clergy in the United States can exclude the value of their dwelling, but there's rules that go around with that.
—Tax Notes Staff, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
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