How to Use cleric in a Sentence

cleric

noun

• And my father’s dad was Canon Elliott, who was a very famous cleric in the war.
  — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2024
• The first face of the revolution to become its leading icon was, of course, not a soldier but a cleric.
  — Amir Ahmadi Arian, The New York Review of Books, 30 Sep. 2020
• Other speakers were helped by a Catholic cleric and Protestant pastors in these stories of resilience — and how individuals can change the lives of strangers in need.
  — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 22 Sep. 2020
• No foofaraw: Of course a cleric—in Chih’s case, one who belongs to a holy order tasked with traveling the land and collecting stories—wouldn’t concern themself with gender.
  — Wired Staff, Wired, 29 Sep. 2020
• Despite the thrill of meeting John Paul, there was one thing Biden refused to do: Kiss the pope’s ring, a customary greeting when meeting an esteemed cleric.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Aug. 2020
• The cleric called for the U.S. to end its support of Egypt and Israel.
  — Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2021
• Even so, the Archbishop of Canterbury is the head cleric of the church.
  — Lyndsey Matthews, Good Housekeeping, 19 Sep. 2022
• Zen was the former top Roman Catholic cleric in Hong Kong.
  — Nectar Gan, CNN, 11 May 2022
• Eleanor’s throat was slashed, and her letters to the married cleric were scattered around their corpses.
  — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2022
• Program staff members were concerned about the depiction of the holy site, and had the artist meet with a cleric.
  — Carol Rosenberg Gabriella Demczuk, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2022
• Sistani, the most powerful cleric in Iraq, is in his 90s and believed to be in poor health.
  — Mohamad Bazzi, Foreign Affairs, 13 Sep. 2022
• Francis was a 12th century cleric known for his love of the poor and all creatures.
  — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 5 Oct. 2020
• Even as a cleric in charge of Iran’s judiciary, Mr. Raisi has sought to cast himself as a man of the people.
  — WSJ, 19 June 2021
• As the blazing sun dipped below the horizon, rumors of a new announcement from the cleric were swirling.
  — Mustafa Salim, Washington Post, 21 June 2022
• The prison system, which did not have Muslim cleric on staff, said non-prison staff would not be allowed in the chamber.
  — Kim Chandler, Star Tribune, 12 Feb. 2021
• Her father, a cleric, found her a match, a man from the same village in Rakhine who is working as a carpenter in Malaysia.
  — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2020
• In the 1970s, Banisadr met Khomeini, a friend of his late father, who had also been a cleric.
  — The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 10 Oct. 2021
• The sixth round of those talks adjourned in June, just days after the election of a hardline cleric to be Iran’s new president.
  — Nicole Gaouette, CNN, 6 Aug. 2021
• For more than a decade, the 51-year-old cleric has seen as a potential successor to his father's throne.
  — Hollie McKay, Fox News, 8 Dec. 2020
• None of the clerics at Jaranwala mosques could be reached to confirm the allegation about the loudspeakers.
  — Asim Tanveer and Munir Ahmed, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2023
• This one is about a cleric named Chih and an old woman, Rabbit, who tells them stories about an empress.
  — Veronica Roth, Peoplemag, 18 June 2024
• The cleric, who coped with diabetes and other ailments along with blindness, died in prison in 2017.
  — Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2021
• Last week, a man was killed and burned to death in Abuja after an argument with a Muslim cleric, the police said.
  — New York Times, 5 June 2022
• It was founded by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, a Palestinian cleric.
  — Niha Masih, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2023
• So is the cleric, Mullah Omar, who died of natural causes in hiding in 2013.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2020
• The cleric’s movement also has an armed wing which has been accused of kidnapping and killing critics, among them a 17-year-old boy on the eve of the election.
  — Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2021
• The cleric described his abduction at a briefing in Lagos this week.
  — Chinedu Asadu, ajc, 3 June 2022
• Last week, a Taliban cleric was killed by a suicide bomber in a Kabul seminary.
  — Susannah George and Haq Nawaz Khan, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Aug. 2022
• This would be the same man who, in 2007, while serving as a senator, boycotted the first prayer delivered in the chamber by a Muslim cleric.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 21 Apr. 2023
• That would let clerics rule according to their interpretation of Shariah, or Islamic law, as opposed to national laws.
  — Stella Martany and Kareem Chehayeb, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024