How to Use priest in a Sentence

priest

noun

• He was ordained as a Roman Catholic priest.
• The rites are done in a few seconds, the priest present for a few minutes.
  — Viet Thanh Nguyen, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2023
• At the burial site, a voodoo priest cleanses the gang with smoke.
  — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2023
• Monks and priests pass through; monarchs pass by and pass on.
  — Peter Ross, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
• People were going to be able to read the Bible themselves and not talk to the priest.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2023
• Never forget: The priests are the heroes of these movies.
  — Vulture, 6 Oct. 2023
• That’s how a Catholic group bought records to identity a priest who went to gay bars.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 9 June 2023
• Khalid Mukhtar, a local priest, said most of the Christians living in the area had fled to safer places.
  — Asim Tanveer and Munir Ahmed, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2023
• This defied Emperor Claudius II, and led to the priest's death.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 13 Feb. 2024
• He was born in 1933 in Jamaica, Queens, and studied to become a priest.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
• The Pope was bringing the priest back from the margins, and joining his own Asian journey to Teilhard’s.
  — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
• As for Polman, the former would-be priest is still preaching.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 17 Dec. 2023
• The priest had tried to come in, and there was a fight in front of the building where the bodies are put out, because the old guy had said there should be no priest.
  — Sterling Holywhitemountain, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2023
• This from a guy who refused to meet with survivors who as children were raped by a priest in the diocese.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023
• The church is most at risk, but a recent visit inside showed no evidence that the priests had planned for the worst.
  — Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
• The post itself shows three photos of the actor posing with priests and friars.
  — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 4 Jan. 2024
• The writings of a rogue German priest named Martin Luther were publicly burned in its courtyard in 1520.
  — Kate Brady, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2023
• The Turkish leader was also seen in a plane holding a phone call with a priest from the targeted church.
  — Gul Tuysuz, CNN, 28 Jan. 2024
• The School of Homer got its name in English some two hundred years ago, from a local priest who showed the site to a British classicist.
  — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• There won’t be a priest, or a wedding dress, or someone chucking a bouquet.
  — Daisy Jones, Vogue, 6 Sep. 2023
• The priest succumbed to stab wounds at a hospital in Omaha.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 16 Dec. 2023
• Will the 13th-century Portuguese priest come to their rescue?
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 9 Mar. 2023
• The only items missing were the priest’s accordion and chalice.
  — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023
• The fabs demand caution, reverence, and of course the hygiene of an abluted priest.
  — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
• The film begins in 1956 after a priest is viciously murdered in France.
  — Charna Flam, Variety, 6 July 2023
• The alarmed parents summoned a priest from St. Joseph’s Catholic Church to bless their house—with no apparent results.
  — Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 18 Oct. 2023
• Even priest James Martin said fans who are devoted to the Giants and Jets wouldn’t be in a forgiving mood.
  — Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Jan. 2023
• Forty-six years earlier, this was where a priest first suggested that Anne Marie join Opus Dei.
  — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 20 Mar. 2024
• Hollander invited a priest from the church to speak at his class as a guest lecturer.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
• Crowe looks nothing like the priest, who was bald-headed, bespectacled and clean-shaven.
  — Deepa Bharath, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024