clerical collar
Example Sentences
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Imagine Beto O’Rourke with a clerical collar and capacity to mint money.
From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026
In his Halloween paso doble showcase, he wore a clerical collar and forewent grease paint or creepy contacts, relying on wide-eyed expressions and a low-slung layer of fake fog to hide his relatively clumsy footwork.
From Salon • Nov. 4, 2025
“I was wearing my clerical collar, a big old cross necklace, you know, basically everything that you can to identify yourself as not exactly a rioter.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 11, 2025
Asked if he continued to wear a clerical collar, he again said he had not been given “any instructions about that.”
From Washington Times • Dec. 22, 2022
He seemed to have forgiven Tessie for breaking off' their engagement years ago, but it was always there in the air between them, like the talcum powder that sometimes puffed out of his clerical collar.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
