priest

Example Sentences

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“She’s a bill-payer, but just like a financial adviser has to be priest, rabbi and therapist to their clients, Sharon was that way to us. She did everything,” said Sydney, who lives in New York.

From MarketWatch • May 8, 2026

David and Margaret meet in England in 1963, where David is a popular young priest and Margaret, though a layperson, is working at his side to teach theology to female seminarians.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

"She was a royal, but at the same time, a chief priest," says local historian Emmanuel Arkoful, a distant relative.

From BBC • May 2, 2026

She was pulled into a scheme involving a man who posed as a priest, another posing as an immigration judge, and another posing as Oscar Carrillo, an attorney licensed in Texas who practices tax law.

From Salon • May 2, 2026

But a cry came from the priest and they looked up to see a marvel hardly to be believed.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton