How to Use preacher in a Sentence

preacher

noun
  • And the preacher pranced around the stage.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Mar. 2026
  • My dad was a Methodist preacher from a long line of them.
    — John Archibald, Southern Living, 11 June 2026
  • Jackson, a preacher, had a way with words.
    — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Jackson had the preachers on his side.
    — Gail Sheehy, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Tall, thin, and bald, he has been compared to both a monk and a preacher.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Caton plays a preacher’s teenage son in the movie who risks his soul to sing blues music.
    — Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2026
  • One of the men, like Baldwin, had been a boy preacher.
    — Literary Hub, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Anyone with good lungs and a protest to faith can become a preacher.
    — Gail Sheehy, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Sometimes, the female preacher spoke as many as three times a day.
    — Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Oct. 2022
  • My fifth-great-grandfather did not change his mind like his preacher.
    — Jessica Goudeau, TIME, 11 July 2024
  • Banks ‘called the note’ The preacher would need a loan to start his church — or buy his home.
    — Dallas News, 15 Dec. 2022
  • What Twin wouldn’t give right now for her own hands to be her mother’s or a preacher’s.
    — Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
  • There are a lot of folks who will support a football player over a preacher.
    — Philip Elliott, TIME, 24 May 2024
  • Bird’s preacher stopped by to pray with Bird on Monday night.
    — John Archibald | [email protected], al, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The preacher and producer has been dating his soon-to-be wife for a year.
    — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 14 Feb. 2025
  • In addition to singing, the late figure toured the world as a preacher.
    — Brooklyn White, Essence, 15 Jan. 2021
  • At this point, Malcolm was no longer an up-and-coming preacher.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The film opens with the gruesome murders of a preacher and his wife in the presence of their young son.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2021
  • If there’s a mess of collards, that means there will be enough to feed the aunts, cousins, and maybe even the preacher, too.
    — Brennan Long, Southern Living, 9 Dec. 2025
  • If there’s a mess of collards, that means there will be enough to feed the aunts, cousins, and maybe even the preacher, too.
    — Brennan Long, Southern Living, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Hull claimed the hoax was inspired by an argument with a preacher in Iowa.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Plus, Rip got to ream out the poor preacher who suggested doing a prayer.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Everybody needs to get their hair cut, from the gangster to the preacher to the teacher.
    — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Like any good country preacher, Jackson could move people to tears and move them to act.
    — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 7 Mar. 2026
  • And there’s always a hint of the preacher in his speaking appearances.
    — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 3 Nov. 2025
  • His voice rose and fell with a preacher’s cadence; the tone of his vocals bleeding raw at the surface.
    — David Drake, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Smith belongs to a generation of preachers who first came to prominence in the aughts.
    — Sam Kestenbaum, Vulture, 2 Jan. 2026
  • The librarian, in turn, accused the preacher of book theft.
    — Literary Hub, 25 June 2026
  • His father, much older than his mom, was a preacher who wanted his son to follow in his footsteps.
    — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Their decision to kiss in front of the preachers was not just an act of defiance, but a message to the world.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024

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