How to Use friar in a Sentence
friar
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There the friars regaled him with tales of the saint’s life.
—Heather McCabe, WIRED, 26 Jan. 1999
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The swinging friar of the San Diego Padres is a knock on Catholics?
—WSJ, 6 Nov. 2016
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All but one of the four parish's friars are leaving Phoenix.
—Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 2 July 2023
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The parson, the pardoner, and friar join in for the fun as well telling their tales.
—Shirley MacFarland, cleveland, 21 Oct. 2022
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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
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All the while, the Duke, disguised as a lowly friar, observes from the shadows.
—Ben Brantley, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2017
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The Friars' return to form yielded a fourth-place finish at this year's state meet.
—Steve Reaven, chicagotribune.com, 23 May 2017
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After a few minutes, the friars said goodbye to go greet more souls.
—Michael Hill, The Seattle Times, 13 Nov. 2018
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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
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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
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What’s good friar, Thx for helping me out with this female.
—Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2020
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Born Jeanne Bécu, Madame du Barry was the daughter of a seamstress and a friar who were not married.
—Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2021
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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
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The oldest map of the city was drawn by Fra Paolino, a Franciscan friar from Venice, dating around 1330.
—Fox News, 9 Jan. 2020
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The friars intended to turn it into a Roman Catholic shrine to the Mother of Jesus.
—oregonlive, 10 Dec. 2019
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The friar came in at No. 27 among Monument Lab’s national top 50.
—Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2021
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It was completed by the 1740s as a two-story convento, where Spanish friars lived and worked.
—Scott Huddleston, ExpressNews.com, 13 Aug. 2019
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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
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Abbots, friars and monks who refused to acknowledge the royal supremacy were hanged.
—Allan Massie, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2018
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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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