How to Use priest in a Sentence

priest

noun

• He was ordained as a Roman Catholic priest.
• The priest is not the hero; the Levite is not the hero.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 26 Sep. 2022
• The priest and his wife were living in the church, too.
  — James Verini, New York Times, 19 May 2022
• The rites are done in a few seconds, the priest present for a few minutes.
  — Viet Thanh Nguyen, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2023
• At the burial site, a voodoo priest cleanses the gang with smoke.
  — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2023
• Whether there's any room for a hot priest is still TBD.
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 27 Jan. 2023
• In one episode, a priest is thought to have been possessed.
  — John Blake, CNN, 14 Aug. 2022
• Monks and priests pass through; monarchs pass by and pass on.
  — Peter Ross, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
• The priest put there that year died just one year later.
  — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 7 Dec. 2022
• People were going to be able to read the Bible themselves and not talk to the priest.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2023
• Never forget: The priests are the heroes of these movies.
  — Vulture, 6 Oct. 2023
• The priest sticks grains of rice to our dripping foreheads.
  — Virginia Feito, New York Times, 26 Nov. 2022
• My family teased me about it, and my priest loved the idea.
  — Amy Dickinson, cleveland, 31 Oct. 2022
• The structure used to house the office and living area of the head priest at the church that was once next door.
  — Joshua Sharpe, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Dec. 2022
• Lisa called her parents, and asked her dad to get their parish priest.
  — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 19 Nov. 2024
• The man in black steps out of the car and opens his raincoat to reveal a priest’s collar.
  — Malcolm Forbes, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2023
• Next to me, a priest—goateed and clad in white—chants Hindu hymns.
  — Chris Schalkx, Vogue, 21 June 2022
• That’s how a Catholic group bought records to identity a priest who went to gay bars.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 9 June 2023
• Khalid Mukhtar, a local priest, said most of the Christians living in the area had fled to safer places.
  — Asim Tanveer and Munir Ahmed, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2023
• The neighbor could have been one of them, as could the local pilot or priest.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Dec. 2022
• Boyle was the youngest, and one of his older brothers became a priest.
  — David Clarey, Journal Sentinel, 19 Nov. 2024
• This defied Emperor Claudius II, and led to the priest's death.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 13 Feb. 2024
• He was born in 1933 in Jamaica, Queens, and studied to become a priest.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
• The Pope was bringing the priest back from the margins, and joining his own Asian journey to Teilhard’s.
  — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
• Shout out to Jason Miller as the young priest questioning his faith, who turns out to be a hero.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 15 Oct. 2024
• Shout out to Jason Miller as the young priest questioning his faith, who turns out to be a hero.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 8 Sep. 2022
• As for Polman, the former would-be priest is still preaching.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 17 Dec. 2023
• Andrew Scott joins the second season as a priest with whom Fleabag falls in love.
  — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Aug. 2022
• The priests hoped this would bring rain to provide a bountiful harvest for their crops.
  — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 1 Dec. 2024
• They were usually told that priests amounted to direct representatives of God, with their words serving as law to parishioners.
  — Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 13 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Jan 2025