How to Use cleric in a Sentence

cleric

noun

• Francis was a 12th century cleric known for his love of the poor and all creatures.
  — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 5 Oct. 2020
• Her father, a cleric, found her a match, a man from the same village in Rakhine who is working as a carpenter in Malaysia.
  — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2020
• Among those who have been detained are the father who posted about Paty and cleric Abdelhakim Sefrioui.
  — James McAuley, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2020
• His students have included the daughter of Tehran’s Friday Prayer imam and grandchildren of a founding cleric of the revolution.
  — Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2020
• The cleric called for the U.S. to end its support of Egypt and Israel.
  — Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2021
• Even so, the Archbishop of Canterbury is the head cleric of the church.
  — Lyndsey Matthews, Good Housekeeping, 19 Sep. 2022
• Zen was the former top Roman Catholic cleric in Hong Kong.
  — Nectar Gan, CNN, 11 May 2022
• Eleanor’s throat was slashed, and her letters to the married cleric were scattered around their corpses.
  — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2022
• Program staff members were concerned about the depiction of the holy site, and had the artist meet with a cleric.
  — Carol Rosenberg Gabriella Demczuk, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2022
• Sistani, the most powerful cleric in Iraq, is in his 90s and believed to be in poor health.
  — Mohamad Bazzi, Foreign Affairs, 13 Sep. 2022
• Even as a cleric in charge of Iran’s judiciary, Mr. Raisi has sought to cast himself as a man of the people.
  — WSJ, 19 June 2021
• As the blazing sun dipped below the horizon, rumors of a new announcement from the cleric were swirling.
  — Mustafa Salim, Washington Post, 21 June 2022
• The prison system, which did not have Muslim cleric on staff, said non-prison staff would not be allowed in the chamber.
  — Kim Chandler, Star Tribune, 12 Feb. 2021
• In the 1970s, Banisadr met Khomeini, a friend of his late father, who had also been a cleric.
  — The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 10 Oct. 2021
• The sixth round of those talks adjourned in June, just days after the election of a hardline cleric to be Iran’s new president.
  — Nicole Gaouette, CNN, 6 Aug. 2021
• For more than a decade, the 51-year-old cleric has seen as a potential successor to his father's throne.
  — Hollie McKay, Fox News, 8 Dec. 2020
• None of the clerics at Jaranwala mosques could be reached to confirm the allegation about the loudspeakers.
  — Asim Tanveer and Munir Ahmed, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2023
• This one is about a cleric named Chih and an old woman, Rabbit, who tells them stories about an empress.
  — Veronica Roth, Peoplemag, 18 June 2024
• The cleric, who coped with diabetes and other ailments along with blindness, died in prison in 2017.
  — Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2021
• Last week, a man was killed and burned to death in Abuja after an argument with a Muslim cleric, the police said.
  — New York Times, 5 June 2022
• It was founded by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, a Palestinian cleric.
  — Niha Masih, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2023
• So is the cleric, Mullah Omar, who died of natural causes in hiding in 2013.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2020
• The cleric’s movement also has an armed wing which has been accused of kidnapping and killing critics, among them a 17-year-old boy on the eve of the election.
  — Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2021
• The cleric described his abduction at a briefing in Lagos this week.
  — Chinedu Asadu, ajc, 3 June 2022
• Last week, a Taliban cleric was killed by a suicide bomber in a Kabul seminary.
  — Susannah George and Haq Nawaz Khan, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Aug. 2022
• This would be the same man who, in 2007, while serving as a senator, boycotted the first prayer delivered in the chamber by a Muslim cleric.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 21 Apr. 2023
• At one polling place inside a mosque in central Tehran, a Shiite cleric played soccer with a young boy as most of its workers napped in a courtyard.
  — Fox News, 20 June 2021
• And this cleric is not the only exorcist very publicly conflating the Evil One with the left, real and imagined.
  — Audrey Clare Farley, The New Republic, 25 May 2021
• Like many early members, Habib was deeply influenced by Musa al-Sadr, a Shiite cleric who preached a kind of liberation theology.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
• Low turnout in recent years has been seen as a clear sign of the souring mood toward clerics and a political establishment that has become increasingly hard-line and conservative.
  — Erika Solomon, New York Times, 21 May 2024

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024