CLERGYMAN in a Sentence

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73 example sentences for CLERGYMAN, such as:

1. They deemed the young clergyman a miracle of holiness.
2. The clergyman's shy and sensitive reserve had balked this scheme.
3. The sensitive clergyman shrank, with nervous dread, from the light missile.
4. Tom tapped his thick fingers together like a clergyman and leaned back in his chair.
5. Old Roger Chillingworth, with a smile on his face, whispered something in the young clergyman's ear.

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 Meanings and Examples of CLERGYMAN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
clergyman
 n.  a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church
Classic Sentence: (71 in 5 pages)
1  Tom tapped his thick fingers together like a clergyman and leaned back in his chair.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
2  "Never," replied Hester Prynne, looking, not at Mr. Wilson, but into the deep and troubled eyes of the younger clergyman.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
3  Old Roger Chillingworth, with a smile on his face, whispered something in the young clergyman's ear.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ELF-CHILD AND THE MINISTER
4  Such was the young clergyman's condition, and so imminent the prospect that his dawning light would be extinguished, all untimely, when Roger Chillingworth made his advent to the town.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE LEECH
5  Ah," replied Roger Chillingworth, with that quietness, which, whether imposed or natural, marked all his deportment, "it is thus that a young clergyman is apt to speak.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE LEECH
6  This diabolical agent had the Divine permission, for a season, to burrow into the clergyman's intimacy, and plot against his soul.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE LEECH
7  "They mostly do," said the clergyman, griping hard at his breast, as if afflicted with an importunate throb of pain.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
8  "It may be so," said the young clergyman, indifferently, as waiving a discussion that he considered irrelevant or unseasonable.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
9  The sensitive clergyman shrank, with nervous dread, from the light missile.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
10  "I do verily believe it," answered the clergyman.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
11  I did," answered the clergyman, "and would gladly learn it.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
12  "Then I need ask no further," said the clergyman, somewhat hastily rising from his chair.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
13  After the incident last described, the intercourse between the clergyman and the physician, though externally the same, was really of another character than it had previously been.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE INTERIOR OF A HEART
14  The clergyman's shy and sensitive reserve had balked this scheme.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE INTERIOR OF A HEART
15  They deemed the young clergyman a miracle of holiness.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE INTERIOR OF A HEART
Example Sentence:
1  "I am sorry my mite is insufficient, my friend," said the clergyman, without again raising his eyes, "it is all I have at present to bestow."
2  The explanation of the intent of matrimony was gone through; and then the clergyman walked a step further forward, and, bending slightly towards him.