How to Use friar in a Sentence

friar

noun

• There the friars regaled him with tales of the saint’s life.
  — Heather McCabe, WIRED, 26 Jan. 1999
• The swinging friar of the San Diego Padres is a knock on Catholics?
  — WSJ, 6 Nov. 2016
• All but one of the four parish's friars are leaving Phoenix.
  — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 2 July 2023
• The parson, the pardoner, and friar join in for the fun as well telling their tales.
  — Shirley MacFarland, cleveland, 21 Oct. 2022
• Central won 11-6 to avenge a loss to the Friars in last year's state title game.
  — Paul Johnson, Naperville Sun, 23 May 2017
• All the while, the Duke, disguised as a lowly friar, observes from the shadows.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2017
• The Friars' return to form yielded a fourth-place finish at this year's state meet.
  — Steve Reaven, chicagotribune.com, 23 May 2017
• After a few minutes, the friars said goodbye to go greet more souls.
  — Michael Hill, The Seattle Times, 13 Nov. 2018
• Yes, a priest or friar will come by each car or bike and bless the deceased’s picture with holy water.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2022
• The pope will sign his third encyclical at the tomb of St. Francis in Assisi on Oct. 3, the day before the feast day of the famous friar.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Sep. 2020
• What’s good friar, Thx for helping me out with this female.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2020
• Born Jeanne Bécu, Madame du Barry was the daughter of a seamstress and a friar who were not married.
  — Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2021
• Three hundred years ago, the future arrived on foot, clad in the brown robe of a Franciscan friar.
  — Laila Lalami, New York Times, 30 May 2023
• The oldest map of the city was drawn by Fra Paolino, a Franciscan friar from Venice, dating around 1330.
  — Fox News, 9 Jan. 2020
• The friars intended to turn it into a Roman Catholic shrine to the Mother of Jesus.
  — oregonlive, 10 Dec. 2019
• Then, an Aztec Sahumadora will bring the copal and assist the priest or friar with the copal burning.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2022
• When the project is complete, drivers will loop under the freeway and access Friars Road West at a stoplight at the top of the ramp on Friars.
  — David Garrick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 19 May 2017
• The only gripe was that early friars failed to foresee that the thick medieval stonework would one day interfere with Wi-Fi.
  — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2019
• The concept dates back to the first half of the 14th century and was inspired by English Franciscan friar William of Ockham.
  — Pawel Rzeszucinski, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2022
• Usually, the friars served the food like a dine-in restaurant, as a sign of respect to their clients; that day, though, the meals were grab-and-go, and yellow caution tape blocked off the garden.
  — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2020
• Only the library had survived the friars’ long sleep, though barely; even its soporific dust, felled by time, failed to fly up.
  — Cynthia Ozick, Harper's Magazine, 10 Apr. 2023
• The friar came in at No. 27 among Monument Lab’s national top 50.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2021
• Today, the grounds is comprised of 62 acres in Northeast Portland, including gardens, a chapel and a monastery that’s home to a handful of friars and nuns.
  — oregonlive, 10 Dec. 2019
• To avoid the wedding, Juliet feigns death by drinking a potion supplied by the local friar that puts her into a deep sleep.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Feb. 2023
• On some heavenly plane, the simple friar from Assisi surely wept as the dam that bore his name gave way, given the cost in human lives.
  — Davey G. Johnson, Car and Driver, 3 Oct. 2017
• The scale of the fruit, moreover, shifts the viewer’s perception of the figure of the friar himself—who, suddenly, appears to be shown on a much larger scale than the trees around him.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 9 June 2022
• It was completed by the 1740s as a two-story convento, where Spanish friars lived and worked.
  — Scott Huddleston, ExpressNews.com, 13 Aug. 2019
• Serra was a Franciscan friar who was one of the founders of the Catholic mission system in California.
  — Michael Willliams, SFChronicle.com, 16 Oct. 2020
• Abbots, friars and monks who refused to acknowledge the royal supremacy were hanged.
  — Allan Massie, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2018
• Abbot Kinney Boulevard lies inland from Venice Beach; how many people think it’s named for some kind of religious friar?
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023

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