How to Use clergy in a Sentence

clergy

noun

• Local clergy have been invited to participate in an interfaith service.
• At the same time, dozens of clergy around the region have pushed back.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2023
• When the clergy couldn’t help, the police, and then the military were brought in, but all to no avail.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2022
• Local churchgoers and members of the clergy came to watch the show.
  — Jesús Rodríguez, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2023
• Timm, 69, retired two years ago from his career in the clergy.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 23 Oct. 2022
• The clergy who hold services from morning till evening, and the cleaners who dust the tombs of monarchs who are now dust.
  — Peter Ross, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
• The cemetery is more than 170 years old and houses prominent members of the armed forces and clergy in the holy city.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 6 Jan. 2023
• So far, the charges stemming from the DOJ inquiry have not been related to Catholic clergy.
  — Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2023
• Father Hieromonk Ioan said that the clergy there simply wanted to pray in peace.
  — Ivan Nechepurenko, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2022
• The area was also home to the capital’s Black elite: merchants, doctors, lawyers and clergy.
  — Elizabeth Williamson, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
• The final term, participation, refers to the ways in which Catholics, both clergy and lay people, can take part in the church.
  — Daniel Speed Thompson, The Conversation, 4 Oct. 2023
• Across the country, clergy members and their flocks are figuring out ways to have their molten chocolate cake and eat it, too — just not all on the same day.
  — Ruth Graham, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2024
• As a result, the clergy struggled to keep track of the order of the service and a pair of train-bearers chatted throughout the ceremony.
  — Sathnam Sanghera, wsj.com, 5 May 2023
• The grounds include ancient cloisters, homes of clergy and senior staff, and three gardens.
  — Peter Ross, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
• Laicization, or the process of removal from the clergy, is extremely rare in the case of bishops, and even more so at a bishop’s own request.
  — Francis X. Rocca, WSJ, 19 Nov. 2022
• Some clergy members also took part in the news conference.
  — Sean Murphy, ajc, 23 Feb. 2023
• Six states have laws that require clergy to report cases of abuse no matter what.
  — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 24 Mar. 2023
• This clergy-penitent privilege is on the books in 33 states, including Utah, the AP found.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Dec. 2022
• Mohammadi went straight to the campus clergy to protest.
  — Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023
• The city held an online vigil Friday night with clergy members, prayer and music.
  — David Sharp, Patrick Whittle, Holly Ramer and Michelle R. Smith The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 28 Oct. 2023
• In every country where we are located, our clergy pray for the leaders of that country.
  — Foreign Affairs, 12 Oct. 2023
• Princess Kate arrived at the event — wearing head-to-toe winter white! — and greeted the clergy and some of the evening's performers before the service began.
  — Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 8 Dec. 2023
• Members of the clergy also paid their respects and initiated prayers which crowds joined in with flags were lowered to half-staff.
  — Sophie Tanno, CNN, 24 Mar. 2024
• How does Baltimore fit into the wider clergy abuse scandal?
  — Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2023
• The move prompted victim advocates to say the diocese is using bankruptcy rules to conceal the scope of clergy abuse.
  — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2023
• And in two days of protests, more than 400 people were arrested, including a number of clergy, which was a pretty novel thing at the time.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2023
• So does the knowledge that some clergy recognized slaveholding as contrary to the Church’s mission.
  — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 27 June 2023
• The reasons for clergy burnout are complex, and need to be understood in larger contexts, Thumma said.
  — Peter Smith, Fortune, 11 Jan. 2024
• On the one hand were shrines, images, sacred objects; on the other, a fierce love of formlessness born out of a loathing of consecrated ground, idols and clergy.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• And because only clergy or wealthy people were buried inside the church, the Lady was likely someone of status.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 16 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 6 May 2024