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• The pastor preached that even the least of God’s creatures deserves freedom from needless or idle cruelty.From the entry least
• Jamie's always preaching about how we need to save a planet when she drives literally everywhere she goes. Like, hypocritical much?From the entry much
• You need to practise what you preach.From the entry practise what one preaches
• If it is no more than a moral discourse, he may preach it and they may hear it, and yet both continue unconverted heathens.From the entry unconverted
• But really, dermatologists have been preaching this simplistic approach to skincare for years.2020 April 8, Lottie Winter, “'Skip-care' is the new streamlining beauty trend that sees a more minimal approach to skincare”, in Glamour…. From the entry skip-care
• Perhaps we should form our own preaching band, to avoid compromise with the Christian ethic of brotherhood.2019, John Hersey, The Call: An American Missionary in China, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, →ISBN. From the entry preaching band
• When leading worship, Elsie usually wore a long black cassock and preaching bands.2014, Alan Argent, Elsie Chamberlain: The Independent Life of a Woman Minister, Routledge, →ISBN, page 203. From the entry cassock
• You think you can come in here and preach lawing to me?2013, J B Bergstad, Hyde's Corner - Book II - In The Name of Vengeance, →ISBN. From the entry law
• North Korea is not a theocracy led by zealots who preach the rewards of the afterlife.2013 April 9, Andrei Lankov, “Stay cool. Call North Korea's bluff.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company…. From the entry unfathomable
• Majlesi preached and popularized his discourse with the open support of the Shah.2011, Ali Rahnema, Superstition as Ideology in Iranian Politics: From Majlesi to Ahmadinejad, Cambridge University Press, Part I, Chapter…. From the entry irreligiosity
• Now, the concept of what I am preaching is to seek out originality—in your own style.2008, Robin Brown, Jason Boyd, Country Living A Bit of Velvet and a Dash of Lace. From the entry Victoriental
• Even Saint Paul makes reference to a rival magician, preaching ‘another Jesus’ (2 Corinthians 11,4).2004 May 21, Riain Barton, “Was Jesus a Jew?”, in alt.bible (Usenet). From the entry Jesuses
• Much of the teaching and preaching in Christianity today falls in the category of old-womanish tales.2001, Witness Lee, Life-Study of 1 & 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon, page 73. From the entry old-womanish
• Slanters turn off those you want to convince — it's like preaching to the converted.2000, Richard L. Epstein, The Pocket Guide to Critical Thinking, page 7. From the entry slanter
• Jay Branegan says each side will be preaching to the choir.1999 August 6, Frank Pellegrini, “Now the Tax Cut Is in the Hands of the Voters”, in Time. From the entry preach to the choir
• Why don't you go round the country with a Ford van, preaching on market days?1995, Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm, page 90. From the entry ford
• The very cartoons of the popular press preach us sermons on usage.1985, The English Language Today, Pergamon Press, →ISBN, page 62. From the entry becoated
• For more than forty years, he preached the creed of art and beauty.1984, Mary Jane Matz, The Many Lives of Otto Kahn: A Biography, page 5. From the entry child
• Is it the twice-born Baptist who can preach love and compassion with true fervor?1976, Marquis Childs, “Glimpses of The Real Carter”, in The Washington Post. From the entry will the real someone please stand up
• Nietzsche could not, for instance, accuse Aristotle of preaching a morality of pity, nor of extolling humility.1973, Philippa Foot, “Nietzsche: The Revaluation of Values”, in Robert C. Solomon, Garden City, New York, editors, Nietzsche: A Collection…. From the entry megalopsychos
• Why don't you get a soap-box and preach on the street-corners?"1921, Alice Hegan Rice, chapter 28, in Quin. From the entry hot air
• Around it have gradually been opened preaching points in several villages.1913, Arthur R. Gray, Arthur M. Sherman, The Story of the Church in China, New York: Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, →OCLC, page…. From the entry Hanchuan
• I shall now look on them as beneficed, and consider their preaching.1903, Edited by Professor Arber and Thomas Seccombe, An English Garner. From the entry beneficed
• Chemnitz was a promoter of a form of natural theology known as testaceotheology or the use of molluscs for preaching.2025 January 31, Wikipedia contributors, “Christoph Samuel John”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation. From the entry testaceotheology
• Burns passed Zorra and gave a speech in the local church on the situation of preaching in Hsiamen.2022 January 10, “Rev. George Leslie Mackay”, in Tamsui District Office, New Taipei City Government, archived from the original on 20 Jul…. From the entry Hsiamen
• “There are many,” preached Hooker, “that sit upon the ale-bench, and sweare, and drinke, and raile against Gods servants.”2015, Baird Tipson, Hartford Puritanism. From the entry ale-bench
• “I’m preaching the virtues of the unselective small colleges, the ones that are inclusive rather than exclusive,” Mr.2007 February 28, Alan Finder, “A Fighter for Colleges That Have Everything but Status”, in New York Times. From the entry unselective
• He protests the war in Vietnam, but looks with contempt on the hate-filled pseudoradicals who preach the politics of violence.2007 September 9, Karen Durbin, “Breaking Through”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Feb 2021. From the entry pseudoradical
• Roosevelt was tired of preaching to deaf ears.2002, Edward M. Bennet, Separated by a Common Language: Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Anglo-American Relations, 1933-1939, Writers…. From the entry preach to deaf ears
• As with all evangelicals, Sumner’s preaching was crucicentric.1995, Nigel Scotland, “Claphamite Pastor and Prelate”, in John Bird Sumner: Evangelical Archbishop, Gracewing, →ISBN, pages 103–104. From the entry crucicentric
• Mel White recalls being a high school student and seeing Billy Graham preaching before sell-out crowds at San Francisco's Cow Palace.1994 October, Michael Bronski, “Queer and Present Danger: Gay Conservatives, Sex and the Christianization of the Gay Movement”, in Gay…. From the entry sellout
• Kludds preached that Klan and Church were synonymous.1992, Michael Moorcock, The laughter of Carthage. From the entry kludd
• Of course, this little antiastrology sermon is being preached to the converted; most literate readers disdain astrology already.1992, Lawrence B. Slobodkin, Simplicity and complexity in games of the intellect, page 10. From the entry antiastrology
• In typical Darbyite fashion, Franson preached that a pretribulationist secret rapture would precede the appearance of the personal Antichrist.1987, Fides Et Historia. From the entry Darbyite
• Obviously, preaching can mispreach and therefore reinforce common misunderstandings.1987, David G. Buttrick, Homiletic: Moves and Structures, page 29. From the entry mispreach
• President Reagan behaved like his predecessors: preaching free enterprise in Washington but playing sugar daddy on the north forty.1985 February 7, “Opinion”, in New York Times, retrieved 22 Sep 2015. From the entry north forty
• In the churchyard stands a rare 14th-century preaching cross.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 73. From the entry preaching cross

Meaning of preach

1. verb To give a sermon.
2. verb To proclaim by public discourse; to utter in a sermon or a formal religious harangue.
3. verb To advise or recommend earnestly.

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How do you use preach in a sentence?

Preach is used as a verb, noun and interjection. For example: “Our pastor can preach very well.”

What is a short sentence with preach?

“Our pastor can preach very well.”

What does preach mean?

Preach means to give a sermon.