How to Use confessor in a Sentence

confessor

noun

• The costumer-confessor and actress-penitent were in a state of hope.
  — New York Times, 4 May 2021
• Some of my younger coworkers, all men, want to turn me into mother confessor.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2019
• Is Pavel Datsyuk is hunkered down in a monastery with his personal confessor?
  — Chanel Stitt, Detroit Free Press, 18 June 2020
• These are just a few of the secrets written on postcards by anonymous confessors and currently on view at the San Diego Museum of Man.
  — Karla Peterson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 July 2018
• With his uncombed mop of hair and sneering Queens accent, Breslin was a confessor and town crier and sometimes seemed like a character right out of his own work.
  — Verena Dobnik, The Denver Post, 19 Mar. 2017
• This is what the church does in its liturgical service and also in canonising those who are believed to be martyrs and confessors.
  — The Economist, 1 Feb. 2018
• But for three decades her music has also served as a sort of open-source support network, with Blige at the center as therapist and confessor, self-esteem coach and cold-truth teller.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 11 Feb. 2022
• In the cases of Grassi and Zanchetta, Bergoglio was a confessor to both men, suggesting he may have been swayed in his judgment by his role as their spiritual father.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Nov. 2020
• As for St. Roch, the name indicates a 14th century Catholic confessor known for his healing powers and for being the patron saint of dogs, bachelors and invalids.
  — Chelsea Brasted, NOLA.com, 19 June 2017
• This is certainly true, but any confessor will tell you that doing better today does not absolve you from confessing past sins.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Feb. 2022
• Then the entire workshop gathered round and staged a mock trial, complete with guards, a confessor, and a public executioner.
  — Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 23 June 2017
• If, for example, the penitent confesses from behind a screen, how can the confessor know for certain who is confessing?
  — Rob Taylor and, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2018
• What Beyoncé shared could be enjoyed, even embraced, but not entered by anyone except the confessor herself and her mate.
  — Ann Powers, Billboard, 7 Sep. 2017
• Take for example this delicious little bit from matriarch Trudy, salon owner, hair washer and chief confessor to all who walk through her doors with their problems.
  — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2022
• The reason for his laughter is nearly always the documentary’s subject, Robert Lloyd, who takes palpable pleasure in causing his friend and (for the purposes of the film) confessor to absolutely lose it.
  — Mark O’Connell, The New York Review of Books, 23 Mar. 2021
• Both trace their authority to the primacy of the word; both offer uplift to the common man, acting as his paternalistic confessor and instructor.
  — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2015
• Going public has turned Anderson into something of a confessor.
  — Nora Krug, chicagotribune.com, 12 June 2018
• Whitman has become a nurse, companion and confessor to these vulnerable soldiers.
  — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2017
• Even if absolution is denied, though, the exchange between penitent and confessor is to remain confidential.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2019
• During the next five years, Isabella's confessor, the bishop Hernando de Talavera, led an ongoing due-diligence investigation, chairing a panel of industry experts who reviewed Columbus' plan.
  — Chip Bayers, WIRED, 1 Jan. 2002
• Critics raised constitutional concerns: given First Amendment guarantees of religious freedom, could the state force confessors to divulge information shared in confidence?
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2019
• Aunt Lydia is a mercurial assassin: a pious leader, a ruthless administrator, a deliciously acerbic confessor.
  — Ron Charles critic, Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024