How to Use clerical collar in a Sentence

clerical collar

noun
  • Soon there will be no need to go to church to get a glimpse of a cassock or a clerical collar.
    — Vogue, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Some people wore hijabs, while others were clad in clerical collars or a yarmulke.
    — Bree Burkitt, azcentral, 17 Mar. 2018
  • The white-haired cardinal appeared in court with his walking stick, wearing a clerical collar and a cross around his neck.
    — Elaine Yu, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2022
  • The eastern parson spider, named for the way the white patch on its black abdomen resembles a clerical collar.
    — Adam Roy, Outside Online, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Bishop Zanchetta, wearing a dark suit, clerical collar and mask, mostly looked down as the verdict was read.
    — Silvina Frydlewsky and Francis X. Rocca, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Then, just before lunchtime, another worker emerges from a backroom, wearing a black sweater and clerical collar.
    — Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Between them came austere black and gray suiting with the ruff of a clerical collar peeking out; lacy chemise dresses and tapestry brocades.
    — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2020
  • Photo and video footage in the complaint showed White apparently head-butting a man in a clerical collar and a female counterprotester.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 22 July 2019
  • Most female clergy members keep to the traditional black trousers, shirt, and clerical collar because of the simple fact that not many other options exist.
    — Brooke Bobb, Vogue, 4 May 2018
  • Father Paul rode shotgun, wearing his clerical collar and trademark fedora.
    — New York Times, 7 Oct. 2020
  • They were joined, at times, by a pale Lutheran priest in his clerical collar and three young women from a youth group called EquiTeens Kenosha.
    — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2020
  • The Chanel gown featured heavy embellishment and shoulder cutouts that alluded to a clerical collar — spiritual and saucy!
    — Cady Lang, Time, 8 May 2018
  • Imagine Beto O’Rourke with a clerical collar and capacity to mint money.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2026
  • In particular, viewers have commented on Father Duplenticy's neck tattoo, which ever so slightly peeks from out his clerical collar.
    — Greta Cross, USA Today, 18 Dec. 2025
  • In the same photo used year after year, Galizia wears a clerical collar and flashes an enigmatic smile worthy of the Mona Lisa against the granite wall of a church in his native Palermo.
    — ABC News, 20 May 2026
  • Austin-Young, the kind of minister often spotted in a clerical collar and a denim jacket, describes herself as somewhere left of the Democratic Party and a person deeply interested in politics.
    — NBC News, 31 Oct. 2020
  • In Chicago, the indelible image of a pastor in a clerical collar shot in the head with a pepper ball by agents standing on the rooftop of an ICE building is a direct violation of CBP’s use of force policy.
    — Andy Rose 19 Hr Ago, CNN Money, 9 Nov. 2025

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