How to Use clerical in a Sentence

clerical

adjective

• The mistake was due to a clerical error.
• She spent the summer doing clerical work for a lawyer.
• But a clerical error at the jail put him right back on the lam two days later.
  — Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
• This echoes a time when the number of Black women in clerical roles was on the uptick, and the need for suits was rising, too.
  — Brooklyn White, Essence, 18 Nov. 2022
• Due to a clerical error, Kelly was paid twice in both May and June 2022.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 25 Jan. 2023
• Since then, the protests have expanded into calls for the ouster of Iran’s clerical rulers.
  — Jack Jeffery, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Dec. 2022
• The authors of the bill had made a clerical error, however.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 8 May 2022
• Her death unleashed a wave of unrest that has grown into calls for the downfall of Iran’s clerical rulers.
  — Jack Jeffery, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Dec. 2022
• Sometimes the check box is wrong because of clerical errors, the researchers said.
  — Kavitha Surana, ProPublica, 27 July 2023
• To keep a law firm or a tailor or a tavern running, clerical tasks such as bookkeeping had to get done.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 6 July 2022
• His dismissal from the clerical state may, therefore, be a matter of interest among the faithful.
  — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 18 Dec. 2022
• Iran has been called both a theocracy and a clerical oligarchy because of the power clerics hold.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2023
• The bishops urged radical change: Grant priestly powers to married men, breaking with the bedrock tenet of clerical celibacy, and increase the reach of the cloth.
  — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 17 Feb. 2024
• Her death sparked a major uproar among the country's youth, who began rebelling against the ruling clerical regime.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 12 Dec. 2022
• Any chance for new converts must hold appeal to a church with declining numbers and still under the cloud of clerical abuse scandals.
  — Joseph P. Laycock, The Conversation, 24 May 2022
• Jackson was on the lam for months after he was mistakenly released from jail in April due to a clerical error.
  — Gregory Yeestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2022
• Most of the clerical abuse cases that have come to light in Italy have done so thanks to the diligence of police and prosecutors, Ms. Giansoldati said.
  — Francis X. Rocca, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2022
• Her death sparked nationwide protests that rocked the country, posing one of the biggest domestic threats to Iran’s ruling clerical regime in more than a decade.
  — Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN, 16 July 2023
• Iran's clerical rulers view the hijab as a key pillar of the Islamic revolution that brought them to power more than four decades ago.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 16 July 2023
• Fortunately for the clerical regime, its Palestinian proxy in Gaza will be hard to destroy.
  — Reuel Marc Gerecht, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2023
• Entering his 16th season, Tomlin laughed off the mix-up as a clerical error.
  — Will Graves, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2022
• It's tied to a measure of inflation called the CPI-W index, which tracks what kinds of prices are being paid by urban wage earners and clerical workers.
  — Bloomberg.com, 12 Oct. 2022
• It’s tied to a measure of inflation called the CPI-W index, which tracks what kinds of prices are being paid by urban wage earners and clerical workers.
  — Stan Choe, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Oct. 2022
• Ali Khamenei, the current supreme leader of Iran’s clerical regime, uses the newspaper Kayhan to express his views and thinking.
  — Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 23 Dec. 2023
• In Bucha, Father Sydor stood beside an older man with a long graying beard, a black clerical robe, and a tall cylindrical headdress.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 2 May 2022
• In 2019, the Vatican announced that McCarrick had been dismissed from the clerical state, a process known as laicization.
  — Jeremiah Poff, Washington Examiner, 30 Aug. 2023
• Amini’s death sparked nationwide protests that rocked the country, posing one of the biggest domestic threats to Iran’s ruling clerical regime in more than a decade.
  — Tara Subramaniam, CNN, 21 Sep. 2023
• At the time, about 15% of USDA workers were women, but most of those women were secretaries or typists or in other clerical roles.
  — Hilda Gitchell, Scientific American, 26 Jan. 2023
• Nearly a year ago, Iranians took to the streets in nationwide protests demanding an end to the clerical government.
  — Farnaz Fassihi, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2023
• Chung was an artist himself, who had a day job doing clerical work at a psychoanalyst’s office.
  — Zachary Small, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024