How to Use clergy in a Sentence

clergy

noun

• Local clergy have been invited to participate in an interfaith service.
• The clergy then will lead the children in a parade around the church.
  — Annie Blanks, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Oct. 2021
• In recent months, members of the clergy have been a particular target.
  — Ingrid Arnesen, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2021
• The British actor was photographed back in June wearing a clergy collar while on set in London.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 10 Oct. 2024
• For many clergy serve as mediators of the Divine, as sacramental signs of God's love.
  — Father Edward Beck, CNN, 6 Oct. 2021
• Most kidnap victims are Haitians, though some foreigners — including French clergy members — have been among those seized in recent months.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2021
• The reviews were a key reform enacted in response to the 2002 Boston clergy abuse scandal.
  — Grant Schulte, ajc, 4 Nov. 2021
• Many Black leaders are swinging into action for the Harris-Walz campaign – and clergy are no exception.
  — Dara Delgado, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2024
• The issue has divided the Church and Catholic clergy around the world have expressed dissatisfaction over the pontiff’s weaker handling of the issue.
  — Robert Hart, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
• When asked if any clergy members have ever been deployed after the program's training and what types of calls were they utilized on, Ellis said that information was not readily available.
  — Rachel Smith, The Courier-Journal, 17 Sep. 2024
• At the same time, dozens of clergy around the region have pushed back.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2023
• When the clergy couldn’t help, the police, and then the military were brought in, but all to no avail.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2022
• That makes the country the most dangerous in the world for clergy.
  — Wendy Fry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 May 2022
• Canon and Sister could also have been in the clergy group, of course.
  — Barry Collins, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024
• Local churchgoers and members of the clergy came to watch the show.
  — Jesús Rodríguez, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2023
• Timm, 69, retired two years ago from his career in the clergy.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 23 Oct. 2022
• They were brought to the gym floor and surrounded by clergy as a pastor prayed for them.
  — Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 7 Sep. 2024
• Most of the clergy (me, too) in my church (Episcopal) would be fine going to such an event.
  — Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune, 24 July 2022
• The clergy who hold services from morning till evening, and the cleaners who dust the tombs of monarchs who are now dust.
  — Peter Ross, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
• Still, the clergy aren’t taking the outcome for granted.
  — Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 16 June 2024
• The cemetery is more than 170 years old and houses prominent members of the armed forces and clergy in the holy city.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 6 Jan. 2023
• So far, the charges stemming from the DOJ inquiry have not been related to Catholic clergy.
  — Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2023
• To make things even more troubling, just like in the movie, the morals of these real life clergy are just as questionable.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 8 Sep. 2022
• The altar was used by the Catholic clergy to celebrate mass until the Crusaders left Jerusalem, Re'em said.
  — Reuters, CNN, 13 Apr. 2022
• Father Hieromonk Ioan said that the clergy there simply wanted to pray in peace.
  — Ivan Nechepurenko, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2022
• Now that books could be mass produced, reading was no longer the sole purview of clergy and other scholars.
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2022
• The area was also home to the capital’s Black elite: merchants, doctors, lawyers and clergy.
  — Elizabeth Williamson, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
• Top clergy have issued fatwas, or edicts, on how to rein in climate change.
  — Sui-Lee Wee Ulet Ifansasti, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2024
• The final term, participation, refers to the ways in which Catholics, both clergy and lay people, can take part in the church.
  — Daniel Speed Thompson, The Conversation, 4 Oct. 2023
• Adele Ichilian, who led the clergy into the service, said the queen’s death felt personal.
  — Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Nov 2024