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, Prevost served as an altar boy and was ordained as a priest in 1982.
From BBC • May 8, 2025
From his childhood serving as an altar boy, he misses “the sense of community that formed on Sunday mornings.”
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 when he was my age in Toome he served Mass for years and it’s time for me to be an altar boy.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
