How to Use preacher in a Sentence

preacher

noun

• Banks ‘called the note’ The preacher would need a loan to start his church — or buy his home.
  — Dallas News, 15 Dec. 2022
• Tall, thin, and bald, he has been compared to both a monk and a preacher.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
• The film opens with the gruesome murders of a preacher and his wife in the presence of their young son.
  — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2021
• Matt believed what his preacher said about the end times.
  — Elizabeth Barber, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
• In addition to singing, the late figure toured the world as a preacher.
  — Brooklyn White, Essence, 15 Jan. 2021
• Everybody needs to get their hair cut, from the gangster to the preacher to the teacher.
  — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2023
• Bird’s preacher stopped by to pray with Bird on Monday night.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 13 Apr. 2023
• Smith was one of two men convicted of the 1988 murder-for-hire of a preacher’s wife.
  — Kim Chandler, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2024
• Sometimes, the female preacher spoke as many as three times a day.
  — Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Oct. 2022
• Two outcasts, a preacher’s daughter and a boy from the wrong side of the tracks, hold the key to uncovering the truth.
  — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Oct. 2023
• The bride was a 17-year-old preacher’s daughter named Dorothy Barton.
  — Bill Wyman, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2022
• Isaac Farris said in 2007 that, as preachers are wont to do, Christine’s date headed straight to the kitchen to get a plate of food.
  — Ernie Suggs The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (tns), al, 30 June 2023
• His voice rose and fell with a preacher’s cadence; the tone of his vocals bleeding raw at the surface.
  — David Drake, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2021
• Smith was convicted in the 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of a preacher's wife.
  — CBS News, 28 Aug. 2023
• The son of a Baptist preacher, Howery began working in kitchens at age 14.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 22 Apr. 2023
• His eldest son, Felix, left to be with the preacher until his father was able to bring him back with the help of police.
  — Rael Ombuor and Frances Vinall, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Apr. 2023
• Prophets, preachers, and witnesses had shown up in every dark place Bob Falls had landed in the past twelve years.
  — Tom Hanks, Harper's Magazine, 5 Jan. 2023
• Reverend Saviour The Christian preacher who changes Tommy’s life for the better.
  — Okla Jones, Essence, 4 Nov. 2023
• Many times us PKs [preachers’ kids] are under a radar of perfection.
  — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 27 Apr. 2023
• With the speech-making skills of a preacher and a nurse’s backbone, Bush became a leading voice in the Black Lives Matter movement.
  — Bruce Handy, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2020
• Allen, 24, a preacher and singer from Mobile, delved into his emotions and displayed his gospel roots.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 17 Mar. 2022
• Her mother, Ann, was a full-time parent, and her father, Charles, was a lawyer and a volunteer preacher.
  — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• With a career spanning more than three decades, this prominent preacher has said and done almost all there is to do – so why the biopic now?
  — Okla Jones, Essence, 18 Aug. 2022
• But the widespread love for Queen Elizabeth, one street preacher said, made her faith suspect.
  — Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online, 24 Sep. 2022
• So at least once a week, do a biceps exercise, like a preacher curl, that has your elbow out in front of your torso.
  — Milo F. Bryant, Men's Health, 16 Feb. 2023
• For preachers, that is to preach differently and to teach a gospel of love and liberation.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Aug. 2023
• The preacher said Job lost his entire family but didn’t get angry with God.
  — James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Feb. 2024
• Reginald served on and off as a preacher at Church of God in Christ, the Pentecostal community.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
• That was back when Perry was still dreaming of becoming a preacher.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 28 Oct. 2023
• Jason Childs may be an unreformed Jay LeRette—the preacher minus the jail-cell epiphany, still adrift in a tumult of rages, unhelped by grace.
  — Andrew Kay, WIRED, 17 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024