How to Use divinity school in a Sentence

divinity school

noun
  • His wife, Julia, serves as the deputy dean of the divinity school.
    — David Bell, WSJ, 24 Sep. 2021
  • His faith plays a major role in his life; Blanco is involved in his church and plans to attend divinity school.
    — Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2022
  • In divinity school we were taught various theories of Jesus’ atonement and why he was sent to die for our sins.
    — baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Back then, Elling was based here, a Rockford native who started singing on the local circuit while in divinity school.
    — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2022
  • Younger ministers and divinity school students returned their own draft cards to signal their resistance.
    — David Mislin, Smithsonian, 3 May 2018
  • He’d already been accepted at divinity school but straightaway got a job at NBC.
    — Ann Hodgman, Smithsonian, 22 May 2018
  • But divinity schools are a bit different than other academic programs.
    — Paul Singer, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2017
  • Lawson was the divinity school’s first Black student accepted, until he got expelled for helping with lunch counter protests.
    — Keith Sharon, The Tennessean, 10 June 2024
  • Mark got all the way through divinity school, then gave up his faith and became a lawyer, but can’t resist the opportunity to sermonize when given the chance.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2024
  • My husband, however, is a professor in a divinity school and not a pastor of a congregation.
    — Kimberly Fornek, chicagotribune.com, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Junior is a disgraced politician with possible mental health issues and Nazareth dropped out of divinity school to photograph lakes.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Rogers was all set for divinity school, wife Joanne says, when he was attracted by the potential of television and appalled by the crass nature of programming for kids.
    — Kenneth Turan, latimes.com, 7 June 2018
  • The fact that the murder took place at the University of Chicago’s divinity school underlines the mystery.
    — Richard Babcock, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2023
  • After divinity school, Granillo trained to become a chaplain at Baylor Hospital, the same hospital where her son died.
    — Daniel Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Meanwhile, Naz, a nature photographer, keeps himself at a distance after fleeing divinity school and the life his parents had so carefully crafted for him.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Cameron Casillas, a theology professor at a nearby divinity school, followed, sweeping into an ancient loveseat while David stood and did his best to look blasé.
    — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 12 June 2024
  • With their agreement, Pahnke brought the twenty divinity school students into a room underneath Harvard’s Marsh Chapel.
    — Rebecca Coffey, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
  • The laboratory occupies a pleasant white cottage on a leafy New Haven street a few steps down Science Hill from the divinity school.
    — Daniel Dorsa, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Nov. 2020
  • Ewing said Lawson came to study at Vanderbilt University’s divinity school at the urging of King.
    — Keith Sharon, The Tennessean, 10 June 2024
  • The Radcliffe Institute and divinity school rely much more heavily on endowment income.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Oct. 2021
  • In 1999, Naomi attended divinity school to become a minister.
    — Jessica Booth, Peoplemag, 3 Mar. 2024
  • With universities under pressure to fire anti-Trump faculty and cut diversity programs, divinity schools will lose their academic freedom.
    — Rev. Nathan Empsall, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • As trends take root, higher education institutions often adopt the seeds of change in divinity school efforts and other programs, signaling a substantive belief in a societal application.
    — Rod Berger, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Over the summer, the 27-year-old divinity school graduate launched a newsletter inspired by Mike Allen's Politico Playbook, but for the religious left.
    — Stephanie Russell-Kraft, Teen Vogue, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Health care organizations generally require that chaplains hold a graduate-level degree from an accredited seminary or divinity school, on-the-job training called clinical pastoral education, and in some cases board certification to demonstrate competency and professionalism.
    — Amy Lawton, The Conversation, 11 Aug. 2025

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