How to use preacher in a sentence

More sentences with preacher

• A sidewalk preacher gave an impassioned sermon while an assistant leafleted those who stayed to listen.From the entry leaflet
• The preacher gave us a long discourse on duty.From the entry discourse
• That preacher gave a real fire and brimstone sermon!From the entry fire and brimstone
• The indicible nature of God has perturbed preachers throughout history.From the entry indicible
• The fire-and-brimstone preacher gave the city council a severe tongue-lashing after they voted on a zoning ordinance allowing a new strip club to open.From the entry fire and brimstone
• “Ladies and gentlethems,” Charlotte said, raising her arms like a preacher.2023, Camille Kellogg, Just as You Are, The Dial Press, →ISBN, page 13. From the entry gentlethem
• By six p.m., many of the town's residents have shown up to hear the traveling preacher.2015, Al DeFilippo, Black Country, Palm Beach Gardens, F.L.: Borrowed Light Productions, →ISBN, page 360. From the entry wooler
• 'Get the autem cackler,' his companion says, pointing at Tyers, mistaking him for a preacher.2014 December 12, Sheena Vernon, Messiah: Love, Music and Malice at a Time of Handel, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry autem cackler
• How the fug does a thug like you know about any preacher?2013, Dan Ferullo, Monster Hill, →ISBN. From the entry fug
• Millions of Americans fell in love with the prosperity gospel and its new kind of preacher.2013, Kate Bowler, Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 5. From the entry megachurch
• The Bible, like some street preacher with a sign, shouts, "The end is near!"2010, Philip Leroy Culbertson, Elaine Mary Wainwright, Bible in Popular Culture, page 184. From the entry apocalyptic
• Obama, on the other hand, stickhandled his preacher problem and retained his poise and dignity.2008 May 8, Diane Francis, “Obama vs McCain. Finally”, in National Post, Canada, retrieved 13 May 2008. From the entry stickhandle
• One of their leaders had been hanging around the camp of another preacher man, the Rev.2008 March 22, Timothy Egan, “Donner Party Democrats”, in New York Times. From the entry nutball
• Please cite examples of preachers who are not Freemason Satanists. kthnxbi.2008 February 14, Pisces, “Billy Graham Get Brain Shunt Update Surgery Today!”, in alt.slack (Usenet), archived from the original on 01…. From the entry kthnxbi
• It may appear skillless for a preacher to snub the simple aspirations of his audience so brutally.2000, Muhammad Khalid Masud, Travellers in faith. From the entry skillless
• Don't let this flatlander misfool you, preacher,” he warned, holding out a fleshy hand.1995, Sonya Birmingham, Frost Flower, page 101. From the entry misfool
• He's talking to himself, bachelorwise, and scowling at the map like a preacher reading Playboy.1995, David Foster, Plumbum: The Ultimate Heavy Metal Experience, page 38. From the entry bachelorwise
• The day of the "nicy-nicy," "namby-pamby," "frockcoated," "kid-gloved" preacher, is gone, and gone forever.1922, Fred A. Grammell, The Oregon Exchange, page 14. From the entry nicy-nicy
• In the South every negro preacher is ex officio a D.D., and is commonly addressed as Doctor.[1921 [1919], H. L. Mencken, chapter 20, in The American Language, 2nd edition, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, →OCLC, footnote, page 138. From the entry solecism
• The preacher grandfather had been one of the Seneca Village elders, ministering to the free Negro community downtown.2021, Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle, Fleet, page 68. From the entry Seneca Village
• A year ago, the Party didn't even exist; some Salafi preachers had deemed democracy haram—forbidden under Islamic law.2012 April 30, Wendell Steavenson, “Radicals Rising”, in The New Yorker. From the entry haram
• Hex's sermon clearly shows a lack of predicatory features, although, according to the colophon, the preacher himself wrote it.2004, Georgiana Donavin, Cary J. Nederman, Richard J. Utz, Speculum Sermonis, page 299. From the entry predicatory
• There are actually some preachers who are timid about urging people to give a good revival love offering.2000, Hugh F. Pyle, What Every Preacher Should Know!, →ISBN, page 307. From the entry love offering
• The great preachers were masters of their craft.1991, James Munson, The Nonconformists: In Search of a Lost Culture, page 113. From the entry craft
• “Why don’t you become a Baptist preacher?” she interrupted wearily.1956 September, Laura Beheler, chapter 16, in The Paper Dolls, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside…. From the entry boring
• Ebenezer, the Methodist preacher?” “No, no, Mary, by no means.1917 December 1, “Father Oswald: A Genuine Catholig^([sic]) Story”, in The Catholic Advance, volume XXVIII, number 9, Wichita, Kan.: The…. From the entry usedst to
• Cyrus Barron straightened to his full height and looked for all the world like some old revival preacher raining fire and brimstone on his congregation.2015, Silver James, chapter 17, in Cowgirls Don’t Cry (Harlequin Desire), Don Mills, Ont.: Harlequin Enterprises, →ISBN, page 178. From the entry rain fire and brimstone
• Although he was also a Quaker preacher, he actively supported the Revolution and was one of the leaders of the pro-Revolutionary Free Quaker movement.2010, Lawrence A. Peskin, Manufacturing Revolution: The Intellectual Origins of Early American Industry, JHU Press, →ISBN. From the entry Free Quaker
• I read in the church bulletin that the preacher of the day, filling the pulpit in the absence of a full-time pastor, was Dr.1999 September 22, Joe Murray, “On the Road: Right at home at the First Baptist”, in Longview News-Journal, page 2A, columns 4–5. From the entry emeritus
• But he had fled to Shang-jao in Kiangsi Province from which he and four Chinese preachers sustained national churches for several months.1979, James C. Hefley, Marti Hefley, By Their Blood, mott media, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 66. From the entry Shang-jao
• In the Middle Ages preachers had enlivened their sermons with exempla – edifying tales of judgements upon sinners and mercies shown to the pious.1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 90. From the entry exemplum
• Misses and Mrses., he would be a stronger believer in Paul’s inspired judgment that women should not become public teachers or preachers in the churches.1930 April 17, J. N. Bowling, “Let Them Remain in the Pews: A California Friend Takes Issue With Dr. Knight”, in The Word and Way and…. From the entry Mrses.
• Sadson got through, he feel quite puffed but very enjoyable and say that, if youngly men would dance with preachers, tango would seem quite sinless.1916, Good Housekeeping, volumes 62-63. From the entry youngly
• For, firstly, the membership of these societies is limited; arid "toothly," as the colored preacher said, one blackball will keep out any one.1907, The Bay State monthly. From the entry toothly
• The hardest-hitting message of the weekend comes not from Huff but from guest speaker Charlotte Gambill, a UK-based traveling preacher who frequently speaks at women’s gatherings.2022 November 8, Allison Theresa, “Sadie Robertson Huff Preaches Submissive Womanhood. Her Message Is Uncomfortably Compelling.”, in…. From the entry hard-hitting
• Van Impe’s premillennial view of the end times paved the way for his own ministry and that of other popular preachers like John Hagee and David Jeremiah.2020 January 22, Elizabeth Dias, “Jack Van Impe, End Times Preacher on TV, Is Dead at 88”, in The New York Times. From the entry end times
• "Then maybe some preacher got a tad too zealous on Sunday" Thinking of his " frog-strangler," Lucy said, "In Montana, we'd call this a gullywasher." " Gullywasher.2008, Jonathan Raban, Surveillance, Vintage, →ISBN, page 110. From the entry gullywasher
• LDS security produced identification information, photographs, and videotape of an anti-Mormon preacher who they said called himself Emmanuel and was often seen around Temple Square, especially at conference time.2006, Tom Smart, Lee Benson, In Plain Sight: The Startling Truth Behind the Elizabeth Smart Investigation, page 262. From the entry produce
• Langley said, “but they are so demanding.” And while not every Baptist preacher would attempt mixing MarK Twain with Micah, such is the leeway granted editor emerituses.1999 September 22, Joe Murray, “On the Road: Right at home at the First Baptist”, in Longview News-Journal, page 2A, columns 4–5. From the entry emeritus
• At Utrecht and Breda there was strong pressure from the Dutch Reformed Church to exclude from employment British preachers who refused to take membership in the classis.1982, Keith L. Sprunger, Dutch Puritanism. From the entry classis

Meaning of preacher

1. noun Someone who preaches a worldview, philosophy, or religion, especially someone who preaches the gospel and especially a clergyman or clergywoman. In a religious context, usually used only to refer to Protestant Christian clergy.

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Questions about preacher in a sentence

How do you use preacher in a sentence?

Preacher is used as a noun. For example: “A sidewalk preacher gave an impassioned sermon while an assistant leafleted those who stayed to listen.”

What is a short sentence with preacher?

“The great preachers were masters of their craft.”

What does preacher mean?

Preacher means someone who preaches a worldview, philosophy, or religion, especially someone who preaches the gospel and especially a clergyman or clergywoman. In a religious context, usually used only to refer to Protestant Christian clergy.