How to Use seminarian in a Sentence

seminarian

noun

• One of the four new seminarians - Matthew Gomez, 27, was born right here in Hialeah.
  — Bea L. Hines, miamiherald, 14 May 2018
• One of the men was a seminarian at the time, and the others were young clergymen.
  — Sam Roberts, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2018
• And the Gowanus Dredgers canoe club — the folks who took the seminarians out paddling — want more put-in spots.
  — Andy Newman, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2017
• The witness is a seminarian with the Chaldean Catholic Church.
  — Greg Moran, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 Oct. 2017
• The table full of seminarians who were downing pints in a local Irish pub Thursday night must have been thrilled.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 19 Jan. 2018
• Eight seminarians carried the casket into the chapel, and the group followed to begin the vigil.
  — Michael Democker, NOLA.com, 21 Mar. 2018
• The seminarian said the diocese later paid for his schooling and gave him a free vehicle.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Oct. 2019
• The seminarians were visited overnight by the royal trio, leaving new soccer balls for them.
  — Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Jan. 2018
• Among those who have called for Malone’s resignation is the former dean of seminarians at the diocese’s Christ the King Seminary.
  — Fortune, 4 Dec. 2019
• The unidentified seminarian in Tennessee was not Saldana, a priest who worked in Texas.
  — Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 4 June 2021
• No seminarian studying canon law can cite case studies in preparing his thesis about how the Catholic Church has responded to the abuse scandal.
  — Nicole Winfield, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Dec. 2019
• McCarrick said as young Haitian seminarians were shown milling about.
  — Nicole Winfield, The Seattle Times, 28 Aug. 2018
• News of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick's abuse of seminarians drove it even closer to home for future priests.
  — Matt Sedensky, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Feb. 2020
• As rector in the 1970s he was known for his prayerfulness, insightful and practical wisdom and genuine love for the seminarians.
  — Deanna Weniger, Twin Cities, 23 Sep. 2019
• Ari joined the group as an intern in 1998 and went from answering phones to performing, much like Ron, who was a Catholic seminarian and National Guardsman before starting in the group’s office.
  — David Gordon, Harper's magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
• Just the other day, a Nigerian seminarian was burned alive as his rectory was attacked.
  — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 18 Sep. 2023
• Timothy Benson plays a young seminarian who comes to study with the priest and calls him out on his sloppy passionless theology.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Nov. 2020
• Earlier this month, members of a militant Hindu group allegedly beat up a group of Catholic seminarians and priests in Madhya Pradesh state.
  — Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2017
• Working with Coughlin are seminarians who are members of his mission group.
  — Ken Byron, courant.com, 25 Aug. 2017
• Satin, who was raised in a family deeply rooted in Catholicism and even spent some time as a teenage seminarian, was determined to silence her identity struggles.
  — Susan Miller, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2020
• Their home became a hip gathering spot for graduate students, and Hester was grooming young seminarians such as King and Haynes.
  — Meghan E. Irons, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2018
• Along with other seminarians, Kerr helped run a summer arts and recreation program for Overtown children.
  — Howard Cohen, miamiherald, 13 June 2017
• Two years later, as a seminarian, he was drafted into the military, first assigned to an antiaircraft unit and later to the infantry.
  — Rachel Donadio, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2022
• The higher-end accommodation subsidises the scrimp-and-save seminarians bunking down on the meeting-room floors.
  — The Economist, 29 Nov. 2019
• Another tape included a comment about the figure of a teenage girl and another criticized female seminarians who don’t work hard enough to look good.
  — Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Washington Post, 22 May 2018
• The archdiocese of New Jersey settled with two alleged adult victims, who were both seminarians under his tutelage.
  — Tara Isabella Burton, Vox, 29 July 2018
• The Mass of Installation followed a procession of hundreds of cardinals, bishops, priests, deacons and seminarians to the city’s cathedral church.
  — USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2020
• For starters, trade the official tour of St. Peter's Basilica for a free one with English-speaking seminarians for a more intimate, insider's take.
  — Bridget Hallinan, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Apr. 2018
• On its own, the tale is sick and tawdry and sadly familiar: A priest who molests boys becomes a bishop who takes advantage of seminarians and who then goes on to be awarded a cardinal’s hat by a hierarchy looking the other way.
  — William McGurn, WSJ, 30 July 2018
• One of the former altar boys says he was repeatedly molested by an older seminarian while living there.
  — Star Tribune, 27 Oct. 2020

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