How to Use clergy in a Sentence

clergy

noun

• Local clergy have been invited to participate in an interfaith service.
• They were brought to the gym floor and surrounded by clergy as a pastor prayed for them.
  — Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 7 Sep. 2024
• How many cases of clergy abuse have been documented in Wisconsin?
  — Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Nov. 2021
• The sun rose Monday and the governor ordered flags flown at half-staff and the police chief prepared to deliver more details and clergy prepared an evening vigil.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 23 Nov. 2021
• Despite Gough's controversial remarks, King said civil rights leaders and clergy are continuing their plea for justice in the case.
  — Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN, 18 Nov. 2021
• Back at the march, Polite got up out of her walker and stepped forward to kneel with protesters, clergy people and members of Arbery's family to pray for that justice.
  — Dakin Andone, CNN, 21 Nov. 2021
• Ware is one of a growing number of people using the services of an eco-chaplain, a new kind of spiritual advisor rising among clergy trained in handling grief and other difficult emotions.
  — Kimberly Winston, NPR, 6 Sep. 2024
• 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
• 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
• Timm, 69, retired two years ago from his career in the clergy.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 23 Oct. 2022
• 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
• As family members waited at the doors for the clergy to walk up to them, silence filled the room except for the sound of stifled sobs.
  — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 1 Sep. 2022
• They were often used in jewelry and to decorate the robes of clergy.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2024
• The more famous the relic, the more pilgrims would make their way to the church or monastery where it was kept, and the more the clergy could earn through the offerings visitors made at the shrine.
  — Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 4 May 2022
• 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

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024