How to Use celebrant in a Sentence

celebrant

noun
  • The bishop will be the main celebrant.
  • The celebrants lit their candles.
  • The seat map will show a birthday cake in a celebrant’s seat.
    — Scott McCartney, WSJ, 20 June 2018
  • After a few hours, celebrants break for boudin, a spicy sausage treat.
    — National Geographic, 12 Feb. 2020
  • The celebrant wore black sandals and kept her hair down with the daring look.
    — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 Apr. 2019
  • The one-on-one time in the dressing room when the celebrant’s whole demeanor can change.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2021
  • Soon, celebrants looked for a way to turn the time after church into more of a party.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 6 Oct. 2017
  • So much so that celebrants in the streets have sometimes been inspired to climb balcony poles to reach then.
    — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 9 Feb. 2018
  • Shayla wore shades and a letterman’s jacket and was all dolled up as a celebrant should be.
    — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 8 June 2023
  • Yours is a chapter in the ancient war between sleeper and celebrant.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Along the route, celebrants are planting white pines, a symbol of peace to the Haudenosaunee.
    — JSTOR Daily, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Even that was unclear to many celebrants, said their lawyer, Nathaniel Garrett.
    — Richard Wolf, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2018
  • The proud father of the birthday celebrant also showed some love to his youngest on social media.
    — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The original birthday celebrants plan on coming back year and year.
    — Katherine Fitzgerald, azcentral, 31 Mar. 2018
  • The birthday celebrant will perform throughout on both nights and expect many duets, trios and multi-artist jams.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 29 Apr. 2023
  • But no guests were more important, aside from the celebrant himself, than Wayne’s children.
    — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Quinceañera applies to both the celebration and the celebrant.
    — Ray Chavez, The Mercury News, 17 June 2019
  • And, 16 percent of Halloween celebrants plan on dressing their pet in a costume this year.
    — Emily Valla, idahostatesman, 22 Oct. 2017
  • Inside the church, celebrants surrounded the open casket and intoned a few hymns to begin the service.
    — Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Naturally, the sidewalks are lined with post-ski and snowboard celebrants all winter long.
    — Crai S Bower, Outside, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Is orange the color of the icing of the pumpkin birthday cakes of upcoming celebrants?
    — Ronald Browning, baltimoresun.com, 26 Sep. 2019
  • The style of dress at Nigerian occasions will vary, depending on the tribe of the celebrants.
    — Adenike Olanrewaju, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2019
  • My vision was to have a Celebration of Life while the celebrants were still living.
    — Steve West, sun-sentinel.com, 14 June 2019
  • While some celebrants have greeted these caricatures with cathartic jeers and sneers, others are shocked and outraged.
    — Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Some celebrants were clad in red, white, and blue, sporting everything from Uncle Sam hats to socks adorned with stars and stripes.
    — Alex Koller, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2023
  • For a safe sense of ceremony outside the sanctuary, the Torah is brought into the celebrant’s home.
    — Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2021
  • The mass, in which 30 other priests were celebrants, was broadcast on rock-concert size speakers for the thousands who could not fit into the tent.
    — Johnny Miller, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Some Fourth of July celebrants wanted to talk about anything but politics.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2026
  • The downtown streets were filled with weekend visitors, most under forty, as well as wedding goers and Pride celebrants.
    — Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • He is already ensconced on a barstool as the celebrants, including Rodgers and Hammerstein, file in.
    — Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, 23 Oct. 2025

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