How to Use priest in a Sentence

priest

noun
  • He was ordained as a Roman Catholic priest.
  • If one hot priest wasn't enough, there are more.
    — Greta Cross, USA Today, 18 Dec. 2025
  • One priest who may face a move is Fr.
    — Elaine Rojas-Castillo, CBS News, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Not even the priest notices her.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 30 May 2026
  • In one corner, priests held a mass.
    — Chad De Guzman, Time, 21 Sep. 2025
  • In the pool, a priest is floating face down.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The priest held up his hand to silence the crowd.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The priest stashed away his robes and did his best to stay out of sight.
    — Time, 14 Apr. 2022
  • The priest there would hold mass and then feed people.
    — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Monks and priests pass through; monarchs pass by and pass on.
    — Peter Ross, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Lisa called her parents, and asked her dad to get their parish priest.
    — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 19 Nov. 2024
  • The priest had already been there to read Brase his last rites.
    — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Apr. 2021
  • The Sox won 5-1, and the priest was forced to pay off.
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Rome knows that the shortage of priests keeps getting worse.
    — Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2025
  • Three of those priests are still awaiting trial.
    — Kimberlee Kruesi, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Sources say the actor will be playing an ex-con turned priest.
    — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Brad really helped me with the priest.
    — Justin Kroll, Deadline, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The whisky priest continues on his way.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 Apr. 2026
  • At the burial site, a voodoo priest cleanses the gang with smoke.
    — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2023
  • That young man became a priest himself.
    — Andy Mitten, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Meanwhile, the priest and Kent aren't about to give up the hunt.
    — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 9 Mar. 2025
  • But as in some old movie, a thin priest with a thick brogue set me right, phone-wise at least.
    — Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Mourners wore black; flowers were laid; a priest spoke.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 15 Dec. 2025
  • The rites are done in a few seconds, the priest present for a few minutes.
    — Viet Thanh Nguyen, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Leo, though, has spoken out about the need to protect priests' rights.
    — ABC News, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Many dressed as ghoulish priests and nuns, their faces painted white and black.
    — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The priests, who led them in would emerge unscathed, having learned to hold their breath.
    — Barry Neild, CNN Money, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Their priest is pictured on the other side of Wahlberg.
    — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 1 Apr. 2026
  • But [the discourse] got caught up in whether or not a priest would ever lie on the stand.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 25 Apr. 2026
  • The disgraced ex-priest died in 2017.
    — Joe Holden, CBS News, 15 May 2026

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