How to Use cleric in a Sentence

cleric

noun

• Yet Saudi clerics, many of whom had spoken out in the past against these changes, appear unwilling or unable to publicly criticize the moves.
  — Time, 23 Dec. 2019
• The 60-year-old cleric has had a visible presence across Hezbollah’s political stage, especially over the past year.
  — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 4 Oct. 2024
• The prince has overseen the country’s war in Yemen, which has led to the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, and the arrest of women’s rights activists, clerics and writers.
  — Time, 23 Dec. 2019
• No cleric’s death could pull crowds like those that gathered to salute their war hero—crowds which did not care that the clerics disapproved of the honour guard carrying weapons and the speech by a woman (the general’s daughter).
  — The Economist, 9 Jan. 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
• And my father’s dad was Canon Elliott, who was a very famous cleric in the war.
  — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Francis was a 12th century cleric known for his love of the poor and all creatures.
  — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 5 Oct. 2020
• For weeks, officials implored clerics to shut down crowded Shiite shrines to halt the spread of the virus.
  — Nasser Karimi, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Mar. 2020
• 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
• The first face of the revolution to become its leading icon was, of course, not a soldier but a cleric.
  — Amir Ahmadi Arian, The New York Review of Books, 30 Sep. 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
• 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
• At the apex of his career, the cleric was so popular that shops sold DVDs of his speeches, and many Lebanese used lines from them as ringtones.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2024
• 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 Updated: 22 Dec 2024