How to Use abbot in a Sentence

abbot

noun

• Since then, the abbot has fought, in the courts and on the ground, to keep possession of them.
  — National Geographic, 2 June 2016
• Even the abbot — the head of the monastery, who had served as a monk for 10 years — was found to be using drugs.
  — Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2022
• The monastery’s longtime guard had set it on fire, even though the abbot had asked him not to.
  — Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2020
• In one corner of the room, an abbot sat discussing a text with one of the printers.
  — Edward Wong, Orange County Register, 22 Mar. 2017
• But was the abbot in the corner, deconstructing their work on the Book of Kells?
  — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 17 May 2017
• In 1965, to keep him on the vast grounds of the abbey, the abbot approved a state of virtual secession within the monastery.
  — Garry Wills, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
• The monks ran away in fear for their lives--all except the abbot, a man who had completely mastered the fear of his own death.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 4 June 2020
• Residents of the area don’t hunt bats anymore since the abbot has warned them against it, Ms. Prangthip said.
  — New York Times, 17 Jan. 2021
• The complex was largely laid out by the young abbot St. Kornily (Cornelius) in the 1500s.
  — Joe Grimm, Detroit Free Press, 15 July 2017
• The abbot himself, Ms. Daston argues, was to serve as a paradigm of the holy life that the Rule commanded the monks to lead.
  — Timothy Farrington, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2022
• Zawana Nyarna, an abbot from Taung Pyone, claims that the monks from his monastery and the six others in the village are innocent.
  — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
• Then the abbot, the Venerable Thich Quang Phap, kneels on cushions on the altar, out of sight of the congregation, to begin the chants.
  — Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 3 Oct. 2022
• This is normally done by the abbot of a local Buddhist temple.
  — Jeremy Hart, WIRED, 11 Oct. 2010
• Next to the monastery sits a second building with four rooms, likely around a courtyard — possibly the home of an abbot or even a bishop in the early church.
  — Jon Gambrell, ajc, 3 Nov. 2022
• Next to the monastery sits a second building with four rooms, likely around a courtyard – possibly the home of an abbot or even a bishop in the early church.
  — Jon Gambrell, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Nov. 2022
• In 1880, the abbot’s quarters burned down, and only four of the hundreds of panels Sansetsu painted survived.
  — Washington Post, 26 May 2021
• By the time it was sealed off, according to the mayor of Kyiv, 142 priests, including the abbot, and visitors had been infected.
  — Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 5 May 2020
• Prachachat, the assistant abbot of Wat Pho stated that the temple can weather this period without tourists for now, but not for much longer.
  — Brooke Schedneck, Quartz, 4 June 2021
• Along with a place in the book and the ear of the local abbot, club bonuses included a parade through the town to induct the new member and a large celebratory dinner.
  — The Economist, 8 June 2020
• The route rambles along roads and countryside from Hollywood to the ruins of the monastery that St. Kevin, a sixth-century abbot, had founded in Glendalough.
  — Kathryn Barush, The Conversation, 10 Aug. 2020
• But the abbot was also commanded to tailor and soften the Rule’s observance to local needs.
  — Timothy Farrington, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2022
• Back in the early 1300s, an abbot of the Sedlec Monastery brought back holy soil from Jerusalem and scattered it across the church’s cemetery, and suddenly everyone wanted to be buried in that sacred ground.
  — Caitlin Morton, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Sep. 2019
• The former abbot, subsequently stripped of his monastic rank, managed to evade capture and flee the country.
  — George Styllis, Washington Post, 24 June 2018
• To be a Buddhist at White Sands, members are asked to take an oath in front of the abbot and promise not to kill, lie, steal, abuse substances or engage in sexual misconduct.
  — Jessica Saggio, OrlandoSentinel.com, 22 May 2017
• The two abbots have not spoken out publicly against the demolitions, and have in fact told residents not to oppose the government.
  — Edward Wong, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2016
• In Thailand, a group of separatist insurgents attacked a Buddhist temple, killing the abbot and one of his fellow monks.
  — Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2019
• Ukraine’s Ministry of Health, however, suspects the outbreak is much larger but cannot confirm due to a lack of cooperation from the abbot.
  — NBC News, 24 Apr. 2020
• Visitors hoping to meet John themselves can stop by the cathedral’s new exhibition on him and follow a trail designed to allows guests to walk in the abbot’s footsteps.
  — Dianne Lugo, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Sep. 2020
• After securing approval from the abbot, Father Sydor and five other priests-in-training had climbed the tower and taken turns pounding the batons of the carillon with their fists.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 2 May 2022
• The government also has sanctioned the Lavra's abbot for alleged pro-Moscow activities.
  — Hanna Arhirova, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024