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How to use curate in a sentence

28 example sentences · noun, verb

Curate means an assistant rector or vicar. Example: “She curated the traveling exhibition.”

Examples of curate by meaning

nounAn assistant barman.

  • ‘Here, Pat, give us a g.p., like a good fellow.’ The curate brought him a glass of plain porter.1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “Counterparts”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, page 107

verbTo act as a curator for.

  • She curated the traveling exhibition.
  • They carefully curated the recovered artifacts.

verbTo apply selectivity and taste to, as a collection of fashion items or web pages.

  • What I love about DVRs is that they really allow you to curate your experience of television.2007 May 16, “TV Networks Woo Advertisers with Fall Line-Up”, in NPR_TalkNation
  • The magazine's mission includes curating a dialogue between poetry, the other arts, and civic life.2010 May, David Biespiel, “This Land Is Our Land”, in Poetry, volume 196, number 2, pages 151–158
  • To grasp how this all works, think of the concepts of editing and curating, adopted from publishing and art but now used constantly in the fashion world to imply judgment, taste and discernment.2010 November 28, Laura Compton, “Shopping sites redefine fashion”, in San Francisco Chronicle, Style, page G1

verbTo work or act as a curator.

  • Not only does he curate for the museum, he manages the office and fund-raises.

More sentences with curate

  • It involves curating the content you see to be uplifting, educational, or inspiring.2026 February 15, Kayla Asbach, “Forget Doomscrolling, People Are ‘Bloomscrolling’ When Everything Starts Stressing Them Out”, in…. From the entry bloomscrolling
  • But she loved a muscular curate with a face that would stop a clock.2004 July 4, Barbara Hall, “Bookwise: Questions”, in Sunday Times, UK, retrieved 05 Jul 2008. From the entry face that would stop a clock
  • The curate settled his collar, coughed, and, making an effort, knocked.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 3. From the entry settle
  • Miss Gimblet nodded, and the curate, desperately conscious of his stockinged feet, advanced and shook hands awkwardly.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 43. From the entry stockinged
  • Theories, like curates' eggs, can be good in parts.2003, Chris Hackley, “‘Writing Up’ the Research Project”, in Doing Research Projects in Marketing, Management and Consumer Research…. From the entry curate's egg
  • I'm surprised you have anything left to curate, Mr Bradford.2000 February 5, Douglas Watkinson et al., “Beyond the Grave”, in Midsomer Murders. From the entry burgle
  • Similarly in the many large parishes, the curates in the outlying chapelries became financially dependent on their congregations.1972, Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down, Folio Society, published 2016, page 59. From the entry chapelry
  • The curate refused to label himself; so the squire growled, "Oh, you sit on the fence, do you?"1956, Theology, Great Britain: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 22. From the entry sit on the fence
  • Outside it resembled a brick barn, inside a marble palace, and its ministration overworked a vicar and two enthusiastic curates.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards…. From the entry ministration
  • Parson Tyll was a curate of one parish across the Strood and of the two on the island.1920, Sabine Baring-Gould, Mehalah: a story of the salt marshes, Chapter 11. From the entry read oneself in
  • "It's a beautiful smoker," he assured the curate, but the curate had still a saving remnant of caution left him.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 27. From the entry smoker
  • Limpet said the effect of this method was to give "Vibration," an explanation which left the curate hopelessly befogged.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 75. From the entry befogged
  • "What the deuce are you doing in that rig-out?" "I - I have taken orders," said the curate hurriedly.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 4. From the entry take orders
  • "What the deuce are you doing in that rigout?" "I - I have taken orders," said the curate hurriedly.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 4. From the entry rigout
  • "Whereabouts are you putting up, Spuds?" asked Mr Cripps, when the curate was again seated on the edge of the rocking chair.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 10. From the entry put up
  • The effect on the company of this wholly unexpected act of grace - largesse of beer from a curate - was electrifying.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 18. From the entry largesse
  • But I am really going to Kingsmouth because there's a man there—a curate—who has the second best private collection in Europe of autonomous coins of Thessaly."1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards…. From the entry autonomous
  • "You are," said Uncle Tinfish, when he recovered the power of speech, "a disgrace, sir, A DIS-GRACE!" The curate merely confirmed Uncle Tinfish's power of divination by a groan.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 162. From the entry disgrace
  • "By Jove, old boy," said Cripps, assisting the curate up, "should have warned you about that chair - the infernal rockers are sawn off short, you know."1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 14. From the entry rocker
  • These concerns are illustrated by the desire of the aforementioned mom-bloggers to curate extraordinary adult memories for their children by fabricating a mythical period of wide-eyed wonder and magical moments.2019 February 1, J. C. Garden, “Interrogating innocence: “Childhood” as exclusionary social practice”, in Childhood, volume 26, number 1…. From the entry fabricate
  • There was about him a certain bar-room grandiloquence that fitted easily with the shabby Bohemia of Cripps's studio, but which the curate, unused to the literary vocabulary, found exceedingly impressive.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 96. From the entry bohemia

Meaning of curate

  1. noun An assistant rector or vicar.
  2. noun A parish priest.
  3. noun An assistant barman.

Full definition of curate

Questions about curate in a sentence

How do you use curate in a sentence?
Curate is used as a noun and verb. For example: “She curated the traveling exhibition.”
What is a short sentence with curate?
“She curated the traveling exhibition.”
What does curate mean?
Curate means an assistant rector or vicar.

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