How to Use preach in a Sentence

preach

verb

• The mayor continues to preach about the need for patience.
• His followers listened to him preach the gospel.
• Practice what you preach—don't smoke if you tell your children not to smoke.
• The minister preached to the congregation about the need for tolerance.
• I don't like being preached at about how I should live my life.
• Have you ever heard that minister preach?
• Their mother has always preached the value of a good education.
• The priest preached a regular sermon that Sunday.
• Thank you to our fans who preached the gospel from the start.
  — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 17 Oct. 2024
• That’s something that’s preached about.
  — Pete Sweeney, Kansas City Star, 12 Sep. 2025
• The Dead never had a need to preach.
  — Colin Fleming, New York Daily News, 5 Apr. 2026
• That was a big part of Blashill’s preaching.
  — Kalen Lumpkins, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2026
• But my parents would always preach that to me.
  — Scott Powers, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2026
• But when a coach has to preach it and teach it, players must perform it.
  — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 25 Oct. 2020
• Pence doesn’t just preach about his deep, abiding love of shoulders.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 14 May 2018
• But its attempt to preach runs cold and only shines a light on what might’ve been.
  — Adam Solomons, IndieWire, 17 Feb. 2025
• In an era of doubt, gaslighting, and lies, the choir needs preaching, too.
  — Nathaniel Moore september 10, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2025
• Now, preach to us again how Trump is the threat to democracy.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 31 July 2024
• Your audience is here to listen and learn, not to be preached to.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
• That’s a point Caissie himself has preached over the weekend.
  — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 29 Mar. 2026
• Now is not the time to preach to others if their opinions differ from yours.
  — oregonlive, 17 Aug. 2020
• Most coaches in such circumstances will preach one game at a time.
  — Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2026
• Locke said churches that preach about race are making the problem worse.
  — Justin Sherman, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2021
• Churches, of which there were many, preached to full pews on Sundays.
  — Jonathan Bullington, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2025
• Officials have been dispatched around the world to preach the tougher rules.
  — Adam Satariano, The Seattle Times, 27 May 2018
• The coaches preach defense, but there isn’t much of it being played.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 8 July 2022
• And while raising me, that's always something she's preached to me.
  — Alicia Lee, CNN, 2 Feb. 2020
• Of course, this should be done in a way to educate, share and inform, rather than preach.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
• At some point, people see what’s in front of them and ignore what is being preached at them.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 18 Dec. 2025
• And so all of these are good reasons to preach patience in Boston.
  — Andrew Sharp, SI.com, 26 June 2019