How to Use cassock in a Sentence

cassock

noun

• Soon there will be no need to go to church to get a glimpse of a cassock or a clerical collar.
  — Vogue, 25 Apr. 2018
• Gray wore a light purple stole over his white cassock and green sneakers on his feet.
  — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 21 Mar. 2018
• Photographs showed blood on his white cassock and a lesion on his arm.
  — John Otis, WSJ, 10 July 2018
• And out splashed a woman in an austere black velvet cassock, hemline dragging in the flood.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2020
• Their outfits, white cottas over red cassocks, a blue dress shirt and trousers underneath, were hot.
  — Karina Bland, azcentral, 25 Dec. 2019
• At the sound of a tap, dozens of young men clad in black cassocks and white surplices rise from kneeling positions to watch two of their brother priests begin a chant.
  — Julia Shumway, The Seattle Times, 24 May 2017
• But this drama of the old nun trying to help the old priest find the arm hole in his cassock is also a formidable piece of realism, and very touching.
  — Joan Acocella, The New York Review of Books, 21 Nov. 2019
• Francis, who had only a hip-high bar to hold on to, lost his balance and suffered a bruised, black left eye and a cut on his eyebrow that dripped blood onto his cassock.
  — Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2017
• As the rehearsal ended, Washington instructed the boys to remove their cottas and cassocks to cool off.
  — Karina Bland, azcentral, 25 Dec. 2019
• Father Andrew, the youthful priest, sometimes changed out of his black cassock into street clothes and drove military materiel some 700 miles across Ukraine, to the front.
  — George Packer, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2022
• Father Brown’s long cassock never gets caught in his bicycle chain.
  — Sarah Manguso, The New York Review of Books, 31 May 2020
• There were former premiers in military garb, bishops in cassocks and collars, and diplomats in barong shirts.
  — Joseph Hincks, Time, 29 June 2017
• Kester pulled his bright vestment over his military cassock, and Skorbach placed a brand-new green helmet on the table beside the candle.
  — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 10 July 2022
• Norman Norell’s satin coat dress (Traina-Norell, 1950), a bishop’s cassock cut in geranium-pink silk, is shimmeringly divine in every sense of the word.
  — Laura Jacobs, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2018
• In Ivankiv, north of Kyiv, a priest wearing his cassock was pulled out of his car and shot at a checkpoint where his body lay for several days, Ukrainian Orthodox officials said.
  — Ian Lovett, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2022
• Al-Sistani, who rarely appears in public or even on television, wore black robes and a black turban, in simple contrast to Francis' all-white cassock.
  — Nicole Winfield and Qassim Abdul-Zahra, Star Tribune, 6 Mar. 2021
• Al-Sistani, who rarely appears in public or even on television, wore black robes and a black turban, in simple contrast to Francis’ all-white cassock.
  — Nicole Winfield and Qassim Abdul-Zahra, chicagotribune.com, 6 Mar. 2021
• Al-Sistani, who rarely appears in public — even on television — wore black robes and a black turban, in simple contrast to Francis’ all-white cassock.
  — Time, 6 Mar. 2021
• Police and sniffer dogs had made their search, and now senior clergy lined up in scarlet cassocks, a welcoming party, while the dean, also in red, stood outside the western entrance to greet his guest.
  — Peter Ross, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
• But in his early 30s, Pritchard turned in his cassock for a blue uniform and started his second life as a Farmington police officer, husband and father.
  — Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 4 Dec. 2022
• Maximien, still devoutly Catholic, arranged for a home audience with his priest, a Beninese man in a white cassock, introducing me as his grandson.
  — David Wright Faladé, The New Yorker, 4 July 2022
• These unassuming, internet sleuths become a force of decency and righteousness in the series amid all the evil and darkness generated by those who wore the collars and cassocks and were supposed to be the keepers of the faith.
  — David Zurawik, baltimoresun.com, 12 May 2017
• These unassuming internet sleuths become a force of decency and righteousness in the series amid all the evil and darkness generated by those who wore the collars and cassocks and were supposed to be the keepers of the faith.
  — Quinn Kelley, baltimoresun.com, 19 May 2017
• The mantle is only attached to the cassock in two places, explained Dario Piccioni, an employee accustomed to selling garments to cardinals and bishops at the Vatican.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Mar. 2021
• Florence Cooper, a tourist from Vancouver, stumbled upon a group of them on Monday dressed in their distinctive black cassocks and scarlet buttons, fascias and zucchettos.
  — New York Times, 9 May 2018
• The two elders, Ayatollah Sistani, 90 and clad in black robes, and Francis, 84, in his white cassock, each the highest religious authority among their followers, sat across from one another in stockinged feet.
  — New York Times, 6 Mar. 2021
• Balenciaga, who attended mass daily, considered joining the priesthood and had an uncle who was a parish priest, also made cassock soutaines for priests, including the one at his burial, Bolton said.
  — Rosemary Feitelberg | Wwd, latimes.com, 7 May 2018
• An official Vatican photo showed Sistani in his traditional black Shiite robe and turban sitting across from Francis, in his white cassock.
  — NBC News, 6 Mar. 2021

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