altar boy
Example Sentences
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Scorsese grew up in New York’s Little Italy as a Catholic altar boy and aspiring priest who was also fascinated by the mafiosos that loomed large in his community.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025
Born in Chicago in 1955 to parents of Spanish and Franco-Italian descent, Prevost served as an altar boy and was ordained as a priest in 1982.
From BBC • May 8, 2025
“I still feel like the altar boy who is goofing on the priest,” he insists.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2024
From his childhood serving as an altar boy, he misses “the sense of community that formed on Sunday mornings, with the old lady you’d never see otherwise.”
From Seattle Times • Oct. 4, 2023
A priest in a black robe entered behind the last altar boy.
From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat
