How to Use clergy in a Sentence

clergy

noun

• Local clergy have been invited to participate in an interfaith service.
• As for mourning the victims, Meyrer says that daunting task will require the help of clergy from across the town and beyond.
  — Arkansas Online, 22 July 2021
• Now, members of the clergy are performing funerals for multiple victims at a time.
  — Rabbi Ben Herman, CNN, 12 July 2021
• And among the clergy, Francis receives his greatest support from older priests, who are dying off, rather than younger ones who are the future of the church.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 July 2021
• The jail only allows video visitation between family members and inmates, and attorneys and members of the clergy who need to talk to an inmate do so through a live-stream service.
  — Byron Tate, Arkansas Online, 20 July 2021
• Raisi was the winner of an election marked by voter apathy and allegations that the ruling clergy stacked the contest in favor of the hard-line cleric and former judiciary head.
  — Washington Post, 21 July 2021
• At the same time, dozens of clergy around the region have pushed back.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2023
• The clergy then will lead the children in a parade around the church.
  — Annie Blanks, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Oct. 2021
• 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
• That makes the country the most dangerous in the world for clergy.
  — Wendy Fry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 May 2022
• Canon and Sister could also have been in the clergy group, of course.
  — Barry Collins, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024
• Local churchgoers and members of the clergy came to watch the show.
  — Jesús Rodríguez, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2023
• With the clergy leading the way, hundreds of thousands of laypeople joined the protests.
  — New York Times, 28 Aug. 2021
• Timm, 69, retired two years ago from his career in the clergy.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 23 Oct. 2022
• They were brought to the gym floor and surrounded by clergy as a pastor prayed for them.
  — Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 7 Sep. 2024
• Most of the clergy (me, too) in my church (Episcopal) would be fine going to such an event.
  — Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune, 24 July 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
• Still, the clergy aren’t taking the outcome for granted.
  — Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 16 June 2024
• 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
• To make things even more troubling, just like in the movie, the morals of these real life clergy are just as questionable.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 8 Sep. 2022
• The altar was used by the Catholic clergy to celebrate mass until the Crusaders left Jerusalem, Re'em said.
  — Reuters, CNN, 13 Apr. 2022
• Father Hieromonk Ioan said that the clergy there simply wanted to pray in peace.
  — Ivan Nechepurenko, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2022
• Now that books could be mass produced, reading was no longer the sole purview of clergy and other scholars.
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 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
• Top clergy have issued fatwas, or edicts, on how to rein in climate change.
  — Sui-Lee Wee Ulet Ifansasti, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2024
• 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
• Adele Ichilian, who led the clergy into the service, said the queen’s death felt personal.
  — Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2022
• Gutman trekked through the mountains alongside academics, clergy and locals.
  — Ernestine Siu, CNBC, 28 Oct. 2024
• The quarter-century celebration summons the clergy and faithful to the Vatican.
  — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 12 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024