parsonage

Example Sentences

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The parsonage between the village and the moors where the Brontes lived with their clergyman father and brother, Branwell, is now a museum dedicated to their memory.

From Barron's • Feb. 28, 2026

It begins in a country parsonage, moves through social insecurity to final productive years in a cottage Austen shared with a beloved sister, mother and close friend.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

In 1820, the Brontes moved to the parsonage in Howarth, where the sisters wrote masterpieces including Emily's Wuthering Heights and Charlotte's Jane Eyre.

From BBC • Dec. 21, 2023

Barber and his family live in a church-owned parsonage, but last year they bought 107 acres of land where they’re raising their Santa Gertrudis beef cattle.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 2, 2022

He had seen the fine clapboard parsonage beside the church where he was to live, and the small house set a ways beyond it that puzzled him some.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt