How to Use vicar in a Sentence

vicar

noun
  • The vicar of a nearby church even chained herself to a tree.
    Megan Gannon, Popular Science, 13 Apr. 2020
  • And that's when Villanelle writes the name of the vicar's dead wife on a post-it and slaps it on his forehead.
    Kat Rosenfield, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Pohl-Henzen, who had been the vicar’s No. 2 for years, is simply rising to the top job on Aug. 1.
    Washington Post, 4 June 2020
  • In 1946, Robin returned to England, receiving a post as the vicar of South Wigston.
    Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 30 Nov. 2019
  • The story involves a woman, believed dead, a vicar who steals her emerald ring, and the bad end that comes to him.
    Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 30 Sep. 2022
  • There's good news for fans who are craving more of their favorite crime-solving vicar.
    Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 11 Aug. 2022
  • One centers on Kurtan’s efforts to get a lift from the local vicar to a nearby mall.
    David Segal, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2020
  • Not to give away her secrets, but never, ever bet against a vicar’s wife in a British mystery.
    Yvonne Zipp, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 May 2023
  • Tom Brittney will play Will Davenport, the new vicar of Grantchester.
    Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 28 Mar. 2019
  • One of the speakers recalled when Vasquez, as a vicar, was asked by church members to shoo away a man outside the church who was viewed as a vagrant.
    Elaine Ayala, ExpressNews.com, 24 Dec. 2019
  • The charge against the vicar, Pavlo Lebid, came as Russian forces pounded targets along the front line in eastern Ukraine, killing at least five civilians.
    Yurii Shyvala, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2023
  • The vicar says the couple's generosity is a sign of their commitment.
    Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 8 June 2023
  • Here's Villanelle, pushed to the fringes of the group, humiliated by the vicar who has no business judging anyone.
    Kat Rosenfield, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2022
  • So Elizabeth has to suck it up, even though going to see her best friend involves having to hear a vicar go on and on about the shelves or whatever.
    Helen Nianias, refinery29.com, 18 July 2022
  • Pym’s subtly comic stories of spinsters, vicars and church bazaars, like Rosa Lewis’s boiled bacon and broad beans, one day went out of style.
    Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 21 July 2017
  • On the faces of a child, a vicar, a cop; sometimes threatening, other times more timid, but with a clear sense of ulterior motives.
    K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2022
  • The family invites Mr. Travis, the vicar, over for dinner, presumably hoping Tom will change his mind about that whole Catholic thing.
    Melissa Wiley, WIRED, 4 Feb. 2013
  • In such cases, the day-to-day running of the diocese shifts to an auxiliary bishop, a vicar general or someone else.
    Nicole Winfield, ajc, 7 June 2023
  • Rebecca is in a side room of the church, alone with her mother after the vicar has shooed away Keeley and Sassy because the woman were laughing too loudly.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2021
  • The coronation invites are out — and one local vicar couldn't be happier.
    Monique Jessen, Peoplemag, 24 Apr. 2023
  • In her novels, Affection is a proxy for freedom—and, thus, as something that should present itself, in the modern way, long before the vicar has been summoned and the vows have been made.
    Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 17 July 2017
  • My playthrough was spent with the first two companions that players can enlist: a small-town factory grunt named Parvati, and a vicar with a checkered past named Max.
    Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Its vicar general, the Rev. Daniel Carson, said there have been personnel cuts and departments been asked to trim budgets by 10%.
    David Crary, Star Tribune, 3 Oct. 2020
  • For a church that prizes unity and sees in the figure of the pope Christ’s vicar on Earth, confusion about who is really pope or the specter of a parallel papacy is no small thing.
    Nicole Winfield, ajc, 21 Apr. 2022
  • The vicar agreed, adding that Northerners were more compliant in their disposition as well.
    Ottessa Moshfegh, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
  • The granddaughter of an army sergeant-major, Mrs. May acquired a deep sense of duty from her father, a local Anglican vicar.
    Max Colchester, WSJ, 15 Jan. 2019
  • Father Steve Angi, vicar general of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, will lead prayers.
    Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Seward was the daughter of the village vicar, and had been powerfully moved by Mompesson’s letters.
    1843, 16 Apr. 2020
  • Albert Bahhuth, the vicar general for the archdiocese, said in a March 24 webinar.
    Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2020
  • Get ready to head back to Cambridgeshire, mystery fans, because everyone's favorite crime-solving vicar is coming back for more sleuthing.
    Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 13 July 2021

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