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26 example sentences for PASTOR, such as:

1. Many churches provide excellent pastoral counselling.
2. A priest's pastoral duties include helping the poor and sick.
3. The young pastor's voice was tremulously sweet, rich, deep, and broken.
4. Carol was ashamed to have this spy from the Great World hear the pastor's maundering.
5. the Bishop for expenses of carriage, expenses of posting, and expenses of pastoral visits.

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 Meanings and Examples of PASTOR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
pastor
 n.  shepherd; one who has the care of flocks and herds; guardian; keeper
Classic Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  Three decades ago, Dr. Westlake, Julius Flickerbaugh the lawyer, Merriman Peedy the Congregational pastor and himself had been the arbiters.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  The pastor's wife decided, "Why, you've caught my very thoughts, Mrs. Kennicott."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
3  At the front door she saw Vida Sherwin, Maud Dyer, and Mrs. Zitterel, wife of the Baptist pastor.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
4  Carol was ashamed to have this spy from the Great World hear the pastor's maundering.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
5  The young pastor's voice was tremulously sweet, rich, deep, and broken.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
6  Thou wast my pastor, and hadst charge of my soul, and knowest me better than these men can.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ELF-CHILD AND THE MINISTER
7  He expressed great alarm at his pastor's state of health, but was anxious to attempt the cure, and, if early undertaken, seemed not despondent of a favourable result.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE LEECH
8  I am little better than a devil at this moment; and, as my pastor there would tell me, deserve no doubt the sternest judgments of God, even to the quenchless fire and deathless worm.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
9  Bedford, a white man from Wisconsin, who was then pastor of a little coloured Congregational church in Montgomery, Ala.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X.
10  The Negro church has done much to stop this practice, and now most marriage ceremonies are performed by the pastors.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
11  I have, therefore, chosen this drawing-room, where you see, smiling and happy in their magnificent frames, your portrait, mine, my mother's, and all sorts of rural landscapes and touching pastorals.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 95. Father and Daughter.
12  the Bishop for expenses of carriage, expenses of posting, and expenses of pastoral visits.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME
13  The Bishop did not omit his pastoral visits because he had converted his carriage into alms.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP
14  This "pastoral visit" naturally furnished an occasion for a murmur of comment in all the little local coteries.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
15  One day Monseigneur the Archbishop while making his pastoral visit saw a pretty little rosy girl with beautiful golden hair enter the class-room through which he was passing.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IV—GAYETIES
Example Sentence:
1  The authorities were deaf to the pastor's any remonstrance about the lack of police protection in the area.
2  The studio has teamed up with a specialist marketing firm with the aim of encouraging pastors to utilise Zack Snyder's comic book reboot in sermons.
3  A priest's pastoral duties include helping the poor and sick.
4  Many churches provide excellent pastoral counselling.
5  In these stories of pastoral life, we find an understanding of the daily tasks of country folk.