How to Use cleric in a Sentence

cleric

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  • Even so, the Archbishop of Canterbury is the head cleric of the church.
    — Lyndsey Matthews, Good Housekeeping, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Zen was the former top Roman Catholic cleric in Hong Kong.
    — Nectar Gan, CNN, 11 May 2022
  • Eleanor’s throat was slashed, and her letters to the married cleric were scattered around their corpses.
    — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Program staff members were concerned about the depiction of the holy site, and had the artist meet with a cleric.
    — Carol Rosenberg Gabriella Demczuk, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2022
  • As the blazing sun dipped below the horizon, rumors of a new announcement from the cleric were swirling.
    — Mustafa Salim, Washington Post, 21 June 2022
  • None of the clerics at Jaranwala mosques could be reached to confirm the allegation about the loudspeakers.
    — Asim Tanveer and Munir Ahmed, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Last week, a man was killed and burned to death in Abuja after an argument with a Muslim cleric, the police said.
    — New York Times, 5 June 2022
  • It was founded by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, a Palestinian cleric.
    — Niha Masih, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The cleric’s movement also has an armed wing which has been accused of kidnapping and killing critics, among them a 17-year-old boy on the eve of the election.
    — Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2021
  • The cleric described his abduction at a briefing in Lagos this week.
    — Chinedu Asadu, ajc, 3 June 2022
  • Last week, a Taliban cleric was killed by a suicide bomber in a Kabul seminary.
    — Susannah George and Haq Nawaz Khan, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Aug. 2022
  • This would be the same man who, in 2007, while serving as a senator, boycotted the first prayer delivered in the chamber by a Muslim cleric.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The Iranian clerics realized that the Shah’s pilots were too valuable to languish in jail.
    — Stephen Witt, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The cleric, Yati Narsinghanand, was accused of hate speech and arrested.
    — Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2022
  • There is a moment in the film when the female [killer] protagonist is triggered just by seeing a cleric at night walking.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 2 Dec. 2022
  • A few months later, the cleric formed his Mahdi Army militia to fight occupying troops.
    — New York Times, 16 Oct. 2021
  • One by one, speakers climbed the pulpit at St. George’s, where the diminutive cleric spent decades preaching against the racial injustice of South Africa’s apartheid government.
    — Joe Parkinson, WSJ, 1 Jan. 2022
  • On June 29, hundreds of Sadr’s supporters gathered outside the Swedish Embassy in a show of strength that ended hours later when the cleric called on them to return home.
    — Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 20 July 2023
  • Talks on reviving the deal made some progress until June, when a hardline cleric, Ebrahim Raisi, was elected president in Iran.
    — NBC News, 4 Dec. 2021
  • So on March 31, the Ukrainian cleric wrote a letter severing all ties to the Moscow Patriarchate.
    — New York Times, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Al-Sadr, 48, is a cleric from a prominent Shiite family who commands the support of millions across the country.
    — Abbas Al Lawati and Adam Pourahmadi, CNN, 31 Aug. 2022
  • In any case, the elevation of a cleric who has worked directly with the Pope emphasized the Vatican’s commitment to the Church’s presence in the region.
    — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The cleric subsequently resigned but last year returned to active ministry as a priest.
    — Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 25 June 2023
  • Sharif called Rehman to express his condolences and assure the cleric that those who orchestrated the attack would be punished.
    — Anwarullah Khan and Riaz Khan, Anchorage Daily News, 31 July 2023
  • Last week, a prominent Taliban cleric was killed by a suicide bomber in a Kabul seminary.
    — Haq Nawaz Khan, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The cleric, who positions himself as against both Iran and the United States, is immensely popular.
    — Hamdi Alkhshali, CNN, 30 July 2022
  • Bishop Lavrentij Mygovich, a white-bearded cleric dressed in a long gray tunic with a wooden cross around his neck, stepped out of the police van and walked to the back of the vehicle containing the coffin.
    — Sudarsan Raghavan, Washington Post, 20 May 2022
  • The cleric's influence is far from diminished, said Al-Shammari.
    — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 13 June 2022
  • The tall and burly Ukrainian military chaplain clutched a wooden cross and wore a long, camouflage-green cleric’s robe and a gold embroidered vestment.
    — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022
  • The Shiite party with a more nationalist identity — that of the populist cleric Muqtada al-Sadr — won the most votes in 2022 but was forced out of politics.
    — Alissa J. Rubin, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023

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