How to Use divinity school in a Sentence

divinity school

noun
  • His wife, Julia, serves as the deputy dean of the divinity school.
    David Bell, WSJ, 24 Sep. 2021
  • His faith plays a major role in his life; Blanco is involved in his church and plans to attend divinity school.
    Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Back then, Elling was based here, a Rockford native who started singing on the local circuit while in divinity school.
    Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2022
  • In divinity school we were taught various theories of Jesus’ atonement and why he was sent to die for our sins.
    baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 23 Apr. 2021
  • He’d already been accepted at divinity school but straightaway got a job at NBC.
    Ann Hodgman, Smithsonian, 22 May 2018
  • Rogers was all set for divinity school, wife Joanne says, when he was attracted by the potential of television and appalled by the crass nature of programming for kids.
    Kenneth Turan, latimes.com, 7 June 2018
  • The laboratory occupies a pleasant white cottage on a leafy New Haven street a few steps down Science Hill from the divinity school.
    Daniel Dorsa, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Nov. 2020
  • Over the summer, the 27-year-old divinity school graduate launched a newsletter inspired by Mike Allen's Politico Playbook, but for the religious left.
    Stephanie Russell-Kraft, Teen Vogue, 19 Dec. 2017
  • With their agreement, Pahnke brought the twenty divinity school students into a room underneath Harvard’s Marsh Chapel.
    Rebecca Coffey, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
  • My husband, however, is a professor in a divinity school and not a pastor of a congregation.
    Kimberly Fornek, chicagotribune.com, 7 Aug. 2019
  • More recently, Mills said, the D.O.C has closed two of its most prominent divinity schools, opting instead to offer online training.
    Brian Lisik, cleveland.com, 27 Aug. 2019
  • Younger ministers and divinity school students returned their own draft cards to signal their resistance.
    David Mislin, Smithsonian, 3 May 2018
  • But divinity schools are a bit different than other academic programs.
    Paul Singer, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2017
  • The Radcliffe Institute and divinity school rely much more heavily on endowment income.
    BostonGlobe.com, 15 Oct. 2021

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