How to Use preacher in a Sentence

preacher

noun

• Her father is not a preacher and not the man in the video.
  — Melonee Hurt, USA TODAY, 5 July 2024
• 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
• The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers.
  — Brenda Wineapple, TIME, 28 June 2024
• 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
• Hull claimed the hoax was inspired by an argument with a preacher in Iowa.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2024
• There are a lot of folks who will support a football player over a preacher.
  — Philip Elliott, TIME, 24 May 2024
• The TikTok video of a man claiming to be her father, a preacher, is also fake.
  — Melonee Hurt, USA TODAY, 5 July 2024
• The pair raised their children on a farm in Arkansas, where William was a physician and preacher.
  — Emily Krauser, Peoplemag, 16 May 2024
• Smith was convicted in the 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of a preacher's wife.
  — CBS News, 28 Aug. 2023
• My fifth-great-grandfather did not change his mind like his preacher.
  — Jessica Goudeau, TIME, 11 July 2024
• 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
• Dominic Cooper plays Jesse Custer, a preacher who’s not your normal man of God.
  — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 20 Aug. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024