priest

[priːst]

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.