How to Use deacon in a Sentence

deacon

noun

• Some of the deacons are women and the head of the steward board is a woman.
  — Corey Williams, Fox News, 9 Sep. 2018
• Jerry was a deacon and a church elder, and Rosie sang in the choir and helped the youth group.
  — Ivana Hrynkiw, AL.com, 7 Jan. 2018
• Three priests and a deacon led, followed by 18 nuns, then the rest of the faithful.
  — Tim Busch, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2021
• The church will be packed with priests and deacons from the Cleveland diocese.
  — Emily Bamforth, cleveland.com, 15 Aug. 2017
• Sherry Johnson was raped by a church deacon at the age of nine.
  — Araceli Cruz, Teen Vogue, 1 Feb. 2018
• Davis, a Catholic deacon from Burbank, plans to walk with Berget from death row to the gurney.
  — Dave Kolpack, The Seattle Times, 26 Oct. 2018
• My mom was a missionary in our church, and my dad is a deacon.
  — Paul Schrodt, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2022
• Video of that would-be shooting showed the moment the man's gun jammed as the deacon dove over a pew and tackled him.
  — Omar Villafranca, CBS News, 13 May 2024
• Prior to the merger, Ray was a deacon with the old church for roughly 12 years, Mack said.
  — Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2023
• The question was whether the ex-deacon, now 84 and enfeebled, would live long enough to hear it.
  — David A. Hammer, NOLA.com, 18 Dec. 2020
• In Decatur, Snipes, who was training to be a deacon, was one of the first to arrive at her church.
  — Greg Jaffe, Washington Post, 24 May 2021
• My dad is a lawyer and also a deacon at my childhood church.
  — Marci Alboher, Fortune Well, 12 Apr. 2023
• That effective date was later moved up to June 1 – the same day the church’s board of deacons met.
  — Tim Funk, charlotteobserver, 9 June 2017
• Brooks’s mom is a minister and her dad is a church deacon.
  — Leanne Italie, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2019
• The jokes between innings would get a deacon banned from church.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 20 Aug. 2020
• Caught in the gunfire was George, a 69-year-old Baptist deacon who tended the block for decades.
  — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• Stewart, 55, works as a road foreman and is a church deacon.
  — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 28 Aug. 2021
• A few years ago, the pastor made Smith an honorary deacon.
  — Helen Ubiñas, Philly.com, 19 June 2017
• The church guitarist, a deacon and a congregant of 38 years are among those killed by the disease.
  — al, 10 May 2020
• In the end, the killer wasn’t the cruel ex-boyfriend or the church deacon with a dubious alibi.
  — Washington Post, 1 June 2021
• Father Michael Duffy lifted up the monstrance, while the deacon rang a bell.
  — Tim Busch, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2021
• Richard Dwyer was a disabled veteran and deacon in the Catholic Church.
  — Thomas Weber, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2022
• Last month, armed gunmen stormed a Port-au-Prince church building and killed a deacon.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2021
• Among those killed in the attack were the store security guard and a church deacon.
  — Brigid Kennedy, The Week, 1 June 2022
• Dzhalilov, the math teacher and deacon, and Miller, the musician, were staying a few blocks away.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2022
• Leonid Dzhalilov, who is forty-three, worked as a high-school math teacher and served as a deacon at a Moscow church.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2022
• The task force is run by Al Green, a 28-year-old church deacon from Jamaica who stands ready to help at every step.
  — Brian MacQuarrie, BostonGlobe.com, 25 June 2018
• The pastor, badly mangled, lies next to the deacon, mother and child, both of whom were killed by shrapnel to the head.
  — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2023
• Dad was an altar boy at Parumala; his father, who is buried there along with my grandmother, was a deacon.
  — Abraham Verghese, Travel + Leisure, 24 July 2024
• The family are frequent visitors of Beargrass Christian Church, where both Beshear and his wife serve as deacons.
  — Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 22 July 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024