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, Leo served as an altar boy and was ordained in 1982.
From BBC • Jul. 29, 2025
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
I know the Latin Mass. I memorized the Latin Mass as an altar boy.
From Washington Post • Feb. 13, 2023
Dad says the altar boy robes will cover the clothes and she says we don’t have the money for robes and the wash they need every week.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
