clergymen

Example Sentences

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Women came to the defense of the clergymen.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

The building has also sparked concern among senior clergymen involved with the project.

From BBC • Jan. 13, 2025

With other prominent Black clergymen, he helped to win the release of Nelson Mandela and end apartheid in South Africa.

From Salon • Oct. 13, 2024

Normally, avant-garde financial tools might come from, well, the financial avant-garde -- bankers, merchants, and investors hunting for short-term profits, not clergymen.

From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2024

These were not only Britons and Germans, but also Belgians, French, Italians, Swiss; they were diplomats and political persons of high rank; distinguished clergymen; retired military gentlemen; writers and thinkers.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro