priest

Definition:
1. A clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites; one of the Holy Orders.
2. A spiritual leader in a non-Christian religion.

Use 'priest' in a sentence:

• 1. He intuited that the old priest was hiding information.
• 2. The priest fidgeted nervously with his black rosary beads.
• 3. The Pope bluntly told the world's priests yesterday to stay celibate.
• 4. The Church of England put a serious obstacle in the path of women who want to become priests.
• 5. He earned the appellation 'rebel priest.'
• 6. The essay exhorts women to cast off their servitude to husbands and priests.
• 7. Parish priests have referred to it in their sermons.
• 8. The church's ruling body voted to ordain women as priests.
• 9. The priest and choir in their lace surplices led the service.
• 10. Deptford had come alive with the advent of the new priest at St Paul's.
• 11. The good priest that is called Father Andrew taught me, of his kindness, from his books.
• 12. He confessed to the priest before he died.
• 13. He was ordained a Catholic priest in 1982.
• 14. My stepfather was a former priest, one of the early black men ordained to the priesthood in the United States.
• 15. The priest made the sign of the cross over him.
• 16. The poor priest was plied with drink at a dinner party.
• 17. Stavros was training to be a priest.
• 18. As a result of divination, Apollo was angry with the Greeks. Because Agamemnon robbed his father's maiden, and his father was the high priest of Apollo.
• 19. He portrays a whisky-sodden Catholic priest.
• 20. Lie me no lies, sir priest, play me no deceptions!
• 21. Tis the priest, Father Andrew!
• 22. This was the work of Layamon, a parish priest of Ernley.
• 23. After five hours of fruitless chatting with the priest and the police, the woman climbed out on to the window sill.
• 24. He was ordained a priest last year.
• 25. The old priest tried to put them off, saying that the hour was late.
• 26. He was led forth, and a priest was brought who was to say a mass for his soul.
• 27. He had trained to be a Catholic priest.
• 28. He was ordained (as) a priest last year.
• 29. 'But Jesus is here!' the priest intoned.
• 30. Women priests are accused of splitting the church.
• 31. At High Mass the priest preached a sermon on the devil.
• 32. The priest sacrificed a sheep.
• 33. The priest's eyes were squeezed shut against the light.
• 34. The priest sacrificed a chicken.
• 35. One penny every week the good priest that teacheth me shall have; mother, Nan, and Bet the other four.
• 36. The secret that the priest had confided to him was a stunning piece of news.
• 37. He earned the appellation "rebel priest."
• 38. The priest intoned the final prayer.
• 39. The priest anointed her with oil.
• 40. The priests were robed in black.
• 41. The priest blessed the bread and wine.
• 42. The priest prepared the body for burial.
• 43. The priest fumbled in the folds of his gown.
• 44. He ordained his own priests, and threatened to ordain bishops.
• 45. The principal person in the procession was a priest.
• 46. The priest frowned into the light, his face puzzled.
• 47. She heard the priest's familiar, flat footfall on the staircase.
• 48. Dr. Thomas Bracken describes the case of a 45-year-old Catholic priest much given to prayer whose left knee became painful.
• 49. As a priest and policeman talked to her through loudhailers from the street, John and his colleague quietly made their way up the stairs of the six-story building to the roof.
• 50. They were married by the local priest.
• 51. The Indians think of him as a holy man, a combination of doctor and priest.