How to Use deacon in a Sentence

deacon

noun

• Vasek entered the program for becoming a deacon the next year.
  — Washington Post, 9 May 2017
• Most priests, deacons, sisters, brothers and lay pastoral workers in the church could probably say the same thing.
  — James Martin, Washington Post, 31 May 2017
• Deacons in the United Methodist Church are ordained clergy who lead the church through preaching and leading ministries.
  — Julie Zauzmer, Washington Post, 7 June 2017
• Some of us--deacons, Sisters of Mercy, and my mother--make it, with prayer, almost to Valentine's Day.
  — Southern Living, 1 May 2017
• Eight supermarket customers were killed, in addition to the store security guard and a church deacon who transported shoppers to and from the store.
  — Evan Rosen, New York Daily News, 12 Jan. 2024
• My grandfather was a pastor, my grandmother was a church organist, my mother was a choir director, and my dad was a deacon and taught Sunday school and played the drums at the church.
  — Cory Booker, Town & Country, 9 May 2017
• In the reflection, the new United Methodist deacon saw what Barclay had been struggling to see for so long: a face true to their identity, with an emblem of faith around their neck.
  — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 8 June 2017
• Some of the deacons are women and the head of the steward board is a woman.
  — Corey Williams, Fox News, 9 Sep. 2018
• Jerry was a deacon and a church elder, and Rosie sang in the choir and helped the youth group.
  — Ivana Hrynkiw, AL.com, 7 Jan. 2018
• Three priests and a deacon led, followed by 18 nuns, then the rest of the faithful.
  — Tim Busch, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2021
• The church will be packed with priests and deacons from the Cleveland diocese.
  — Emily Bamforth, cleveland.com, 15 Aug. 2017
• Sherry Johnson was raped by a church deacon at the age of nine.
  — Araceli Cruz, Teen Vogue, 1 Feb. 2018
• Davis, a Catholic deacon from Burbank, plans to walk with Berget from death row to the gurney.
  — Dave Kolpack, The Seattle Times, 26 Oct. 2018
• My mom was a missionary in our church, and my dad is a deacon.
  — Paul Schrodt, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2022
• Video of that would-be shooting showed the moment the man's gun jammed as the deacon dove over a pew and tackled him.
  — Omar Villafranca, CBS News, 13 May 2024
• Prior to the merger, Ray was a deacon with the old church for roughly 12 years, Mack said.
  — Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2023
• The question was whether the ex-deacon, now 84 and enfeebled, would live long enough to hear it.
  — David A. Hammer, NOLA.com, 18 Dec. 2020
• In Decatur, Snipes, who was training to be a deacon, was one of the first to arrive at her church.
  — Greg Jaffe, Washington Post, 24 May 2021
• My dad is a lawyer and also a deacon at my childhood church.
  — Marci Alboher, Fortune Well, 12 Apr. 2023
• That effective date was later moved up to June 1 – the same day the church’s board of deacons met.
  — Tim Funk, charlotteobserver, 9 June 2017
• Brooks’s mom is a minister and her dad is a church deacon.
  — Leanne Italie, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2019
• The jokes between innings would get a deacon banned from church.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 20 Aug. 2020
• Caught in the gunfire was George, a 69-year-old Baptist deacon who tended the block for decades.
  — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• Stewart, 55, works as a road foreman and is a church deacon.
  — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 28 Aug. 2021
• A few years ago, the pastor made Smith an honorary deacon.
  — Helen Ubiñas, Philly.com, 19 June 2017
• The church guitarist, a deacon and a congregant of 38 years are among those killed by the disease.
  — al, 10 May 2020
• In the end, the killer wasn’t the cruel ex-boyfriend or the church deacon with a dubious alibi.
  — Washington Post, 1 June 2021
• Father Michael Duffy lifted up the monstrance, while the deacon rang a bell.
  — Tim Busch, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2021
• Richard Dwyer was a disabled veteran and deacon in the Catholic Church.
  — Thomas Weber, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2022
• Jeffress said deacons are concerned that church records inside the library could be lost.
  — Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 20 July 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024