How to Use rectory in a Sentence

rectory

noun

• Leukas dries the herbs in the rectory and then puts them in small packets.
  — Myrna Petlicki, chicagotribune.com, 20 July 2021
• The property runs along the side of the church and in front of the rectory.
  — Kim Chatelain, NOLA.com, 15 Dec. 2017
• There was even talk of housing workers here on student visas in the rectory of a church.
  — Andrew Brinker, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2022
• After the rectory was finished, the church began the drive for the new church.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 29 Apr. 2024
• The report said the parish did not provide reasoning for why the rectory should be torn down.
  — Cate Charron, IndyStar, 2 Oct. 2025
• As for the 9,000-square-foot rectory, that’s a future project.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 21 July 2021
• People would trickle in and out, but for the most part, Neary says, the rectory was empty.
  — Elyssa Cherney, chicagotribune.com, 7 Oct. 2019
• Slevin offered to help him with his basketball skills and began inviting him to the rectory.
  — Jean Marbella, Baltimore Sun, 21 Dec. 2022
• Besides the main church, the grounds of Five Wounds have been home to a rectory, a convent and a school.
  — Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 6 July 2019
• The office fills what had been the boiler room of the monks' dormitory, or rectory.
  — Heather Millar, WIRED, 1 Aug. 1996
• The restaurant also still uses its open-air courtyard, between the church and the rectory.
  — Ian McNulty, NOLA.com, 22 Dec. 2020
• Malecki attended Mass with Maskell and lived close to the church's rectory at the time of her death.
  — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 8 July 2023
• On Friday, bouquets of flowers lay at the doorway of the rectory.
  — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2025
• Ben leaves to grab some bricks from the rectory to do it that night; Sister Andrea isn’t messing around.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 4 July 2024
• The rectory, where Storey lives, is across the street and has a Prairie Village address.
  — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 22 Sep. 2025
• The rectory, where Storey lived, is across the street and has a Prairie Village address.
  — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 10 June 2026
• The developer agreed to clad the bottom of the new tower in the same local stone and limestone trim used in the rectory.
  — Josh Barbanel, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2017
• Proceeds from the sale will help fund the refurbishing of the rectory in preparation for the calling of a new priest.
  — Staff Report, Daily Southtown, 10 July 2018
• The women on the hunger strike had come prepared with electrolyte drinks, and the priest shared the contents of the rectory pantry with those who were not striking.
  — Frances Robles, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2019
• The rest of the rectory is to be converted into a bed-and-breakfast with six guest rooms, and a former garage out back will become a cafe.
  — New York Times, 26 Oct. 2021
• Everyone in the church knew that Mullah's home, in the church rectory, had been flooded by knee-high water.
  — Staff, USA TODAY, 3 Sep. 2017
• The two go past the pews and up the stairs of the rectory, where the rest of the attendees are already gnoshing on cupcakes and chit-chatting.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2022
• The church and the adjoining Rectory share a garden, which in late April is already abloom with roses.
  — Patti Nickell, chicagotribune.com, 26 May 2017
• Eleven young Tennysons spilled out of the Somersby rectory—seven boys and four girls, with Alfred third from the top.
  — Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
• The incident took place in a secluded garden between the church and the rectory, Boyd told the Press.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 23 May 2018
• The priest believed him and invited him into the rectory, where the conman stole $900 in cash from his bedroom.
  — Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 5 Mar. 2024
• The accompanying two-story rectory was built with brick and looks similar in style to homes in the neighborhood.
  — Cate Charron, IndyStar, 2 Oct. 2025
• The officer parked at Lorain South Branch Library just west of the church rectory.
  — Kaylee Remington, cleveland.com, 9 May 2017
• And then Pliska moved out of the rectory in 2016 and the relics came up missing at that time, along with some furniture and other stuff.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 20 Jan. 2023
• After Mass, the priest walked Ernie to the building housing the office and rectory where, Cox alleges, the man raped him.
  — Joshua Sharpe, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 Dec. 2022