How to Use vestment in a Sentence

vestment

noun

• The group managed to take vestments, the tabernacle and the Holy Host.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2019
• He was dressed in a miter, the headgear of a bishop, and a red cloak-like vestment.
  — Frances D'emilio, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
• There have never been such gay vestments for the priesthood.
  — Adam Gopnik, Town & Country, 5 Mar. 2023
• There’s a need for clergy in their vestments to walk hand-in-hand with poor mothers and poor children.
  — Tim Funk, charlotteobserver, 16 Aug. 2017
• At the front of the Cathedral near the pulpit, a red vestment stood on display next to a large portrait of the late pope emeritus.
  — Dallas News, 5 Jan. 2023
• Hooded silver and gold gowns had the drape of vestments and the commitment of the true believer.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2020
• One recalled the smell of the priest’s polyester liturgical vestments, seared into his brain.
  — Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun, 3 Mar. 2023
• The priest, who had grown up on a farm in western Kansas, wore cowboy boots under his vestments,...
  — WSJ, 20 Apr. 2017
• Now, Alter said, the banners and vestments are in his private storage unit.
  — oregonlive.com, 11 Aug. 2019
• The methods of invocation, the forms of the circles, the vestments, even the incenses have changed little, if at all.
  — Kent Russell, Harper's Magazine, 11 May 2022
• Kentucky’s clergy will soon be able to pack heat under their vestments.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 14 Apr. 1998
• This past Sunday, Father Matt stopped wearing white and went back to the everyday green vestments.
  — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, SFChronicle.com, 15 Jan. 2020
• Gowns, robes and other lively vestments are on display, too.
  — Mark Hedin, The Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2017
• Her Catholic upbringing gave her a fascination with the priest’s act of getting dressed in his vestments.
  — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 5 Oct. 2023
• The sun broke through the clouds during the Mass, one of the longest services on the Church’s calendar, as Francis, red vestments placed over his coat, sat in a chair under a canopy erected in the square.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Apr. 2023
• The sun broke through the clouds during the Mass, one of the longest services on the Church's calendar, as Francis, red vestments placed over his coat, sat in a chair under a canopy erected in the square.
  — Frances D'emilio, USA TODAY, 2 Apr. 2023
• Formosus’s corpse was then stripped of his papal vestments.
  — National Geographic, 20 Aug. 2019
• Religious vestments were lent to flush out the exhibit.
  — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 8 May 2018
• Bright teals and gold capture the scene Perry still remembers on her cope, the vestment worn by priests in celebration.
  — Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press, 8 Feb. 2020
• The velvet vestment was commissioned for King Charles' mother to wear at her own coronation in 1953.
  — Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 6 May 2023
• In turn Biden gave the pontiff a vestment for clerics, known as a chasuble, made in 1930 that was part of an archive belonging to the oldest Catholic church in Washington.
  — Chico Harlan, Seung Min Kim, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Oct. 2021
• Clothed in an embroidered golden vestment, a piece of paper in hand, Potapov addressed his parishioners.
  — Mariya Manzhos, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2022
• And then Frank Daly will be ready for the investiture, bestowing upon this man from the Congo his proper priestly vestments.
  — Thomas Farragher, BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2018
• Women young and old wear the lace head coverings of eons past, and a priest in white and blue vestments stands up front, facing not the congregation but the altar against a wall, murmuring in Latin.
  — Jonathan M. Pitts, baltimoresun.com, 14 Dec. 2017
• The machine had finished sewing a series of ornate purple crosses into a long sheet of white fabric, to be turned into church vestments.
  — USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2017
• The minister at the small timbered chapel pulled the vestment over the lures hanging from his fishing vest, rolled out a burgundy carpet, set up some fake flowers and declared them married.
  — Heather Gillers, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
• My vestments consisted of a safety helmet and a full-body harness secured to the Spider’s basket by a chain and carabiner.
  — Cullen Murphy, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2019
• Claire stumbles across a man in religious vestments preaching.
  — Julie Kosin, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 Nov. 2017
• Seeing someone like Dany actually trying to deal with the vestments of being a queen and [dealing with] factions and guilds and the economy.
  — Scott Meslow, GQ, 14 Aug. 2017
• Kester pulled his bright vestment over his military cassock, and Skorbach placed a brand-new green helmet on the table beside the candle.
  — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 10 July 2022

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024