How to Use sacristy in a Sentence

sacristy

noun

• The sacristy, a tiny room next to the altar, is packed with bad memories.
  — Ben Wedeman, CNN, 4 Mar. 2021
• Deacon Joe even made sure there was always Kleenex in the sacristy.
  — Chuck Gibson, Cincinnati.com, 31 Oct. 2017
• One hundred and thirty-six children died in a church sacristy, which had been raked with bullets and then set on fire.
  — New York Times, 7 Apr. 2021
• One of Michelangelo's first sculptures is on display here—a crucifix, hanging in one of the sacristies, or rooms of the church.
  — Samantha Leal, Marie Claire, 23 Sep. 2015
• Records show that builders added a second floor to the sacristy during the 1380s, when construction work was taking place across the monastic complex.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Aug. 2020
• Some lady, a church worker in a floral dress, was moving cardboard boxes from the altar to the sacristy.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 22 May 2017
• Hand sanitizers sat on a table in Our Lady of Guadalupe’s foyer, and near the sacristy.
  — Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2021
• In the sacristy, three bullets perforated a life-size painting of Christ.
  — José De Córdoba |, WSJ, 23 July 2018
• There is hardly a trace of the convent on the main floor, where the summer dining room once housed a chapel and a comfortable sitting room once contained a sacristy.
  — J.s. Marcus, WSJ, 14 Mar. 2018
• He was accused of molesting the boys in the cathedral’s sacristy, or dressing-room, after a Sunday mass.
  — The Economist, 8 Apr. 2020
• In the 1836 siege and battle, the nave had a dirt ramp leading to a platform where Texians fired three cannons above the altar area while women and children kept refuge in the sacristy.
  — Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, 31 May 2021
• In a lawsuit filed in federal district court Tuesday, Rink is accused of molesting the boy in the sacristy, the room in a church where a priest prepares for a service.
  — USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2017
• The assaults included fondling and groping of the boy’s genitals and on one occasion the abuse occurred in the sacristy of the parish while the boy was preparing the altar for Mass, the lawsuit alleges.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2021
• If anybody can dispel the cobwebs and vapors that have collected in the Plath sacristy, Dakota and Dunst can (fingers crossed).
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 26 Jan. 2017
• In 1836, the church, still roofless except for the sacristy, where women and children found refuge, functioned as a cannon station during the famed early morning battle.
  — Scott Huddleston, ExpressNews.com, 13 Nov. 2020
• The burglars also apparently cut into a safe in the church's sacristy, but there was nothing inside, according to WABC.
  — Mark Osborne, ABC News, 30 May 2022
• The original tiles in the sacristy and in the baptistery were not able to be saved, however, because they were ruined by flooding in the aftermath of firefighting efforts.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2022
• The garments themselves tell a story of celebrating the sacristy of women and embracing the divine feminine that is.
  — Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 Aug. 2022
• The Jalisco state prosecutor’s office said early indications suggest two men entered the sacristy, fired directly at the priest and then fled in a car.
  — Peter Orsi, The Seattle Times, 21 Apr. 2018
• There, equipment was installed so the bell stays stationary and is rung by a moving internal clapper that is controlled electronically by a switch in the sacristy, Flanagan said.
  — Leonor Vivanco-Prengaman, chicagotribune.com, 9 Dec. 2017
• Patronato is focusing on conserving mural art and plaster walls in the mission's sacristy, and treating a set of historic original doors.
  — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 7 Dec. 2022
• Layton argued that a decision in favor of the church would open a Pandora's sacristy of demands by religious organizations on the public purse.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 19 Apr. 2017
• Russia will be something of the elephant in the sacristy, however, given how the Vatican has been loath to openly criticize Moscow or its powerful Orthodox Church.
  — Fox News, 21 Sep. 2018
• Separated from the main church by a stone bell tower and a pair of 200-year-old yuccas, the building now serves as both the center of Nurio’s religious life and a temporary sacristy for the artifacts rescued from the Apostle Santiago Church.
  — New York Times, 11 Feb. 2022
• An additional allegation of abuse emerged during the committal hearing, of an incident at a sacristy at St Patrick's Cathedral in Melbourne.
  — Lucie Morris-Marr, CNN, 29 Mar. 2018
• Conservation professionals already have documented frescoes that have been verified inside the church sacristy, which had a stone roof and was used as a worship space by the mission Indians.
  — Scott Huddleston, ExpressNews.com, 13 Nov. 2020
• Per a statement provided to Smithsonian magazine, medieval clergy members may have also gathered in the sacristy to prepare for processions into the main church.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Aug. 2020
• Targo’s founders, Chloé Rochereuil and Victor Agulhon, received permission to film in usually inaccessible spots, including the sacristy and the attic.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
• Unlike Vatican museums collections, items still used in liturgical celebrations are kept in the chapel’s sacristy, an adjoining room housing vestments and other ecclesiastical items.
  — Shira Telushkin, Washington Post, 3 May 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024