How to Use lector in a Sentence

lector

noun
  • Carol said her husband, who was a lector at St. Jerome for nearly 50 years, trained her to be a forensics and debate judge.
    Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2019
  • In the play, a lector, well dressed and well mannered, reads to workers rolling cigars in nineteenth-century Tampa.
    Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017
  • Lily Henry is an altar server, lector and teacher in the parish faith formation classes.
    cleveland, 30 Sep. 2022
  • The floor has a space where a lector, in the early 1900s, would read a variety of texts from classic literature to the daily newspaper to keep workers entertained while working.
    Jennifer Simonson, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Aug. 2021
  • Subjected to harassment, lesser wages and unwanted advances in a shadowy cigar factory, she becomes enraptured by books read aloud to the workers by a lector who quickly falls in love with her.
    Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2021
  • Delgado also is a parishioner, serving as a lector and extraordinary minister of the Holy Eucharist.
    Mort Mazor, sun-sentinel.com, 24 Dec. 2020

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