How to Use rector in a Sentence

rector

noun

• The rector of Thornhill had been proved right.
  — Big Think, 9 Sep. 2025
• His father was a rector of a dental school, and his mother was a dentist.
  — Hannah Beech, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2022
• Ciotti had gone to speak to the school’s rector, to explain why the girl’s real name could not be used.
  — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
• All rental requests are fulfilled at the discretion of the rector and the vestry.
  — Tracy Trobridge, Howard County Times, 14 June 2018
• The plan was scrapped, and the school’s rector issued a public apology.
  — Marc Santora, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2019
• Along the way, Wili and Miller made many friends and the rector hoped to tap into that well for the current drive.
  — Kim Chatelain, NOLA.com, 31 May 2018
• For the cathedral's dean and rector, Amy Dafler Meaux, the turnout was a thing of beauty.
  — Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online, 4 Nov. 2023
• White served on the board of visitors at Virginia Tech and was vice rector and rector there.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Aug. 2021
• The rector said in his statement that the critique of Guðbjartsson’s role in the saga had been made public.
  — Gretchen Vogel, Science | AAAS, 13 Apr. 2018
• Don Menendez will serve as the chair of the search committee to find the Advent’s next dean and rector.
  — al, 5 May 2021
• Others, however, have testified that the boys were happy and that the rector checked the dorms at night and never heard or saw any abuse.
  — Nicole Winfield, Star Tribune, 25 May 2021
• Lyon academy rector Olivier Dugrip said that pupils from these schools were among the victims of the fire.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Dec. 2022
• Ryan said Sheridan kept other board members in the dark, including the rector at the time of his departure.
  — Lexi Lonas Cochran, The Hill, 24 Nov. 2025
• He was ordained a priest a year later and served as the church’s assistant until 1969, when he was named rector.
  — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 3 Jan. 2023
• Then Matthew Talarico, the rector, led a procession of congregants around the block where the church sits.
  — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 2 Oct. 2022
• The hearing, on Zoom, included the university’s lawyer and the rector.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2023
• Her mother is an Episcopal priest and the rector of the Church of the Atonement in Westfield.
  — New York Times, 8 Oct. 2017
• As for the rector’s other housemates – a pair of scene-stealing dachshunds – Lewis is happily resigned to being upstaged.
  — Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 28 Sep. 2025
• All Saints’ in Beverly Hills was one of the first large Episcopal churches with a female rector.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2020
• During that time, Gau was also rector and minister of the high school's Jesuit community.
  — Chris Ramirez, jsonline.com, 9 Feb. 2024
• Before it was brought to the Chicago area, the Des Plaines icon was touched to the original image and blessed at the basilica by the church’s then-rector.
  — Laura Rodríguez, chicagotribune.com, 11 Dec. 2019
• Father Nyein, 29, is an Episcopal priest and serves as the associate rector of Grace Church.
  — New York Times, 24 June 2018
• At Sagrada Familia, a prayer verse is included at the base of the cross installed Friday afternoon, said church rector Turull.
  — Suman Naishadham, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2026
• About 120 of them engage in adoration and weekend-long spiritual retreats, the first of which saw organizers and the basilica’s rector stay up to prepare the church until well past midnight.
  — ABC News, 1 June 2026
• In an eight-page letter, Rachel Sheridan, the school’s rector, said there were no assurances from the federal government its scrutiny of the university would end with Ryan’s resignation.
  — Lexi Lonas Cochran, The Hill, 14 Nov. 2025
• There was only one doctor left in the country who could do it, neurosurgeon Volodymyr Smolanka, acting rector of Uzhhorod National University.
  — Elaine Pofeldt, Forbes.com, 20 June 2026
• The Rectory As the name suggests, The Rectory was originally home to the rector of nearby All Saints’ Church and his 14 children.
  — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 13 June 2026
• That would be Matthew Lewis (the Harry Potter series’ Neville Longbottom) as Canon Daniel Clement, the rector in picturesque Champton.
  — Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 28 Sep. 2025
• More than two dozen UVA Health leaders signed a letter to the university's rector and interim president, asking them to give Rosner the permanent position, the organization said in a news release.
  — Alexis Kayser, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
• Sophie D’Amours, rector at Université Laval, adds that the university prioritizes the wellbeing and growth of its employees in part because the hope is for employees to stay long-term and build their careers at ULaval.
  — Rachel Rabkin Peachman, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026