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
The church where Pope Leo XIV attended mass as a child and served as an altar boy is now an empty shell.
From BBC • May 8, 2025
“I still feel like the altar boy who is goofing on the priest,” he insists.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2024
The plaintiff was an altar boy at Ascension Catholic Church in Chesterfield, Missouri.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 9, 2023
He knocks at the sacristy door and tells Stephen Carey,This is my son, Frank, who knows the Latin and is ready 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.
