How to Use vestment in a Sentence

vestment

noun
  • The group managed to take vestments, the tabernacle and the Holy Host.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2019
  • He was dressed in a miter, the headgear of a bishop, and a red cloak-like vestment.
    Frances D'emilio, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
  • There have never been such gay vestments for the priesthood.
    Adam Gopnik, Town & Country, 5 Mar. 2023
  • There’s a need for clergy in their vestments to walk hand-in-hand with poor mothers and poor children.
    Tim Funk, charlotteobserver, 16 Aug. 2017
  • At the front of the Cathedral near the pulpit, a red vestment stood on display next to a large portrait of the late pope emeritus.
    Dallas News, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Hooded silver and gold gowns had the drape of vestments and the commitment of the true believer.
    Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2020
  • One recalled the smell of the priest’s polyester liturgical vestments, seared into his brain.
    Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The priest, who had grown up on a farm in western Kansas, wore cowboy boots under his vestments,...
    WSJ, 20 Apr. 2017
  • Now, Alter said, the banners and vestments are in his private storage unit.
    oregonlive.com, 11 Aug. 2019
  • The methods of invocation, the forms of the circles, the vestments, even the incenses have changed little, if at all.
    Kent Russell, Harper's Magazine, 11 May 2022
  • Kentucky’s clergy will soon be able to pack heat under their vestments.
    Wired Staff, WIRED, 14 Apr. 1998
  • This past Sunday, Father Matt stopped wearing white and went back to the everyday green vestments.
    Kevin Fisher-Paulson, SFChronicle.com, 15 Jan. 2020
  • Gowns, robes and other lively vestments are on display, too.
    Mark Hedin, The Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2017
  • Her Catholic upbringing gave her a fascination with the priest’s act of getting dressed in his vestments.
    Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The sun broke through the clouds during the Mass, one of the longest services on the Church’s calendar, as Francis, red vestments placed over his coat, sat in a chair under a canopy erected in the square.
    BostonGlobe.com, 2 Apr. 2023
  • The sun broke through the clouds during the Mass, one of the longest services on the Church's calendar, as Francis, red vestments placed over his coat, sat in a chair under a canopy erected in the square.
    Frances D'emilio, USA TODAY, 2 Apr. 2023
  • Formosus’s corpse was then stripped of his papal vestments.
    National Geographic, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Religious vestments were lent to flush out the exhibit.
    Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 8 May 2018
  • Bright teals and gold capture the scene Perry still remembers on her cope, the vestment worn by priests in celebration.
    Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press, 8 Feb. 2020
  • The velvet vestment was commissioned for King Charles' mother to wear at her own coronation in 1953.
    Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 6 May 2023
  • In turn Biden gave the pontiff a vestment for clerics, known as a chasuble, made in 1930 that was part of an archive belonging to the oldest Catholic church in Washington.
    Chico Harlan, Seung Min Kim, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Clothed in an embroidered golden vestment, a piece of paper in hand, Potapov addressed his parishioners.
    Mariya Manzhos, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2022
  • And then Frank Daly will be ready for the investiture, bestowing upon this man from the Congo his proper priestly vestments.
    Thomas Farragher, BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2018
  • Women young and old wear the lace head coverings of eons past, and a priest in white and blue vestments stands up front, facing not the congregation but the altar against a wall, murmuring in Latin.
    Jonathan M. Pitts, baltimoresun.com, 14 Dec. 2017
  • The machine had finished sewing a series of ornate purple crosses into a long sheet of white fabric, to be turned into church vestments.
    USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2017
  • The minister at the small timbered chapel pulled the vestment over the lures hanging from his fishing vest, rolled out a burgundy carpet, set up some fake flowers and declared them married.
    Heather Gillers, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
  • My vestments consisted of a safety helmet and a full-body harness secured to the Spider’s basket by a chain and carabiner.
    Cullen Murphy, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2019
  • Claire stumbles across a man in religious vestments preaching.
    Julie Kosin, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 Nov. 2017
  • Seeing someone like Dany actually trying to deal with the vestments of being a queen and [dealing with] factions and guilds and the economy.
    Scott Meslow, GQ, 14 Aug. 2017
  • Kester pulled his bright vestment over his military cassock, and Skorbach placed a brand-new green helmet on the table beside the candle.
    Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 10 July 2022

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