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.
• Coach Daboll and the whole staff preach that all the time.
  — Pat Leonard, Hartford Courant, 8 Aug. 2022
• Thank you to our fans who preached the gospel from the start.
  — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 17 Oct. 2024
• The lyrics, meanwhile, preached the gospel of car culture.
  — Matthew Guerrieri, BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2018
• Jesus said go into all the world and preach the gospel.
  — al, 11 Aug. 2020
• Now, preach to us again how Trump is the threat to democracy.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 31 July 2024
• That’s what Wall Street is preaching — at least for now.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2024
• Paul is brought to preach in the Areopagus, for centuries the center of civic life in the city.
  — Jack Butler, National Review, 7 May 2023
• Trump had been preaching about this for the longest time.
  — ABC News, 13 Apr. 2025
• Officials have been dispatched around the world to preach the tougher rules.
  — Adam Satariano, The Seattle Times, 27 May 2018
• But when a coach has to preach it and teach it, players must perform it.
  — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 25 Oct. 2020
• And the oddity in that is in sports who preach the opposite.
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 18 June 2018
• The coaches preach defense, but there isn’t much of it being played.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 8 July 2022
• Churches, of which there were many, preached to full pews on Sundays.
  — Jonathan Bullington, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2025
• But its attempt to preach runs cold and only shines a light on what might’ve been.
  — Adam Solomons, IndieWire, 17 Feb. 2025
• Pope Francis, who died on April 21 at the age of 88, knew how to preach in the social media era.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 21 Apr. 2025
• Your audience is here to listen and learn, not to be preached to.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
• The Nazis banned his books and barred him from lecturing and preaching.
  — John Blake, CNN Money, 13 Apr. 2025
• Now is not the time to preach to others if their opinions differ from yours.
  — oregonlive, 17 Aug. 2020
• Blanchard was called to preach in 2009 but stepped away from ministry a few years ago.
  — Roy S. Johnson | [e-mail], al, 23 Oct. 2022
• Neumann set the vision, collected the checks, preached the gospel.
  — Alison Griswold, Quartz, 24 Sep. 2019
• All weekend, manager Carlos Mendoza has been preaching to his team that while the Dodgers are great, the Mets are pretty good too.
  — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 25 May 2025
• Unlike monks who withdrew from ordinary life, mendicants stressed a life of poverty, spent in travel from town to town to preach and help the poor.
  — Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 27 May 2025