priest's collar

Example Sentences

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The man in black steps out of the car and opens his raincoat to reveal a priest’s collar.

From Washington Post • Jan. 27, 2023

In a one hour, 40 minute video on Sunday, Pavone, still wearing a priest's collar, said he had been "persecuted in the Church for decades" and derided his critics as "the dumbest in the world".

From Reuters • Dec. 18, 2022

Custer is a classic anti-hero and the last guy on Earth you’d expect to see strapping on a priest’s collar.

From The Verge • May 10, 2016

She wore black leather pants, a wide belt, a black shirt, a large Celtic-looking cross, and a priest’s collar.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 5, 2014

But the stone happened to fall so luckily that his head went right through the hole in the middle of the mill-stone, so that it sat round his neck like a priest's collar.

From The Pink Fairy Book by Lang, Andrew