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
• Now contact your local vicar and request the personal telephone numbers of as many bakers, butchers, and bumbling policemen as the vicar can provide.
  — Simon Webster, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 8 Oct 2024