How to Use clerical collar in a Sentence

clerical collar

noun

• Soon there will be no need to go to church to get a glimpse of a cassock or a clerical collar.
  — Vogue, 25 Apr. 2018
• They were joined, at times, by a pale Lutheran priest in his clerical collar and three young women from a youth group called EquiTeens Kenosha.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2020
• Sitting in the chapel at St. Francis de Sales Seminary, the deacon is dressed in all black, except for a white clerical collar.
  — Clara Hatcher, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2018
• Some people wore hijabs, while others were clad in clerical collars or a yarmulke.
  — Bree Burkitt, azcentral, 17 Mar. 2018
• Photo and video footage in the complaint showed White apparently head-butting a man in a clerical collar and a female counterprotester.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 22 July 2019
• Between them came austere black and gray suiting with the ruff of a clerical collar peeking out; lacy chemise dresses and tapestry brocades.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2020
• Then, just before lunchtime, another worker emerges from a backroom, wearing a black sweater and clerical collar.
  — Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2021
• Most female clergy members keep to the traditional black trousers, shirt, and clerical collar because of the simple fact that not many other options exist.
  — Brooke Bobb, Vogue, 4 May 2018
• The Chanel gown featured heavy embellishment and shoulder cutouts that alluded to a clerical collar — spiritual and saucy!
  — Cady Lang, Time, 8 May 2018
• Austin-Young, the kind of minister often spotted in a clerical collar and a denim jacket, describes herself as somewhere left of the Democratic Party and a person deeply interested in politics.
  — NBC News, 31 Oct. 2020
• Father Paul rode shotgun, wearing his clerical collar and trademark fedora.
  — New York Times, 7 Oct. 2020

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