CLERGY in a Sentence

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20 example sentences for CLERGY, such as:

1. The clergy scorn it not, and the bold soldier.
2. The new proposals affect both clergy and laity.
3. Theodora watched the senior clergy failing to respond.
4. The clergy are lost there in the crowds of their parishioners.
5. First send the chief magistrate, then the clergy, then the merchants.

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 Meanings and Examples of CLERGY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
clergy
 n.  clergymen collectively; body of people ordained for religious service
Classic Sentence:
1  Yet so loose were the ideas of the times respecting the conduct of the clergy, whether secular or regular, that the Prior Aymer maintained a fair character in the neighbourhood of his abbey.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  This excuse she stated before a great council of the clergy of England, as the sole reason for her having taken the religious habit.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
3  The clergy scorn it not, and the bold soldier.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
4  He made, however, a last vigorous attack on Athelstane, and he found that resuscitated sprout of Saxon royalty engaged, like country squires of our own day, in a furious war with the clergy.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
5  It is not there that respectable people of any denomination can do most good; and it certainly is not there that the influence of the clergy can be most felt.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  The clergy are lost there in the crowds of their parishioners.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
7  It is impossible that your own observation can have given you much knowledge of the clergy.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
8  She was afraid she had used some strong, some contemptuous expressions in speaking of the clergy, and that should not have been.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
9  They ran the three churches to which they belonged, the clergy, the choirs and the parishioners.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
10  I say it only shows his foolish, impious pride, and abominable, devilish rebellion against the reverend clergy.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 83. Jonah Historically Regarded.
11  O, because I have had only that kind of benevolence which consists in lying on a sofa, and cursing the church and clergy for not being martyrs and confessors.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
12  First send the chief magistrate, then the clergy, then the merchants.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT I
13  The clergy resumed the services in many churches that had not been burned.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER XIV
14  Meanwhile the officiating clergy had got into their vestments, and the priest and deacon came out to the lectern, which stood in the forepart of the church.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 4
15  the Prior and Vicar-General of Saint-Germain des Pres ordered a solemn procession of all his clergy, in which the Pope's Nuncio officiated.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER X—ORIGIN OF THE PERPETUAL ADORATION
Example Sentence:
1  Bishop Proudie's wife expected all the subordinate clergy to behave with great deference to the wife of their superior.
2  The primate is elected by the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada through a process in which the bishops offer five nominations to the clergy and lay members of synod who then choose one name.
3  But in the Middle Ages, there was no formal ban on marriage for the clergy.
4  The new proposals affect both clergy and laity.
5  Theodora watched the senior clergy failing to respond.