priest

Example Sentences

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"When you get back you can't say what you've been doing, I mean lying to your parish priest is quite difficult."

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

They include a teenage boy with a piggy bank full of videogame winnings, a young woman in need of a heart transplant, a cash-poor film producer and a mute priest.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

She was still performing that role when she was ordained as a priest in 2002 and became the first female Bishop of London in 2018.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

Ordained a priest in 2002, she became the first female Bishop of London in 2018, only four years after the church began allowing women bishops after years of bitter factional wrangling.

From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026

Robert and Thomas and the priest, whispering paternosters, followed the prints all the way to the mill where, crossing themselves, they unlatched the door.

From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman