How to Use rabbi in a Sentence

rabbi

noun
  • The rabbi leads the group through the first portion of prayers.
    — David Bezmozgis, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
  • Our mascot will be a rabbi, clad in a black hat and a long coat.
    — Jonathan Zimmerman, New York Daily News, 9 Feb. 2025
  • Toj called a friend who had cleaned the rabbi’s rooms alongside her.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 24 Sep. 2020
  • The rabbi wasn't home at the time and no one was hurt in the bombings.
    — Lauren Fichten, CBS News, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Lieberman asked his wife on the ride home from the event, per the rabbi's retelling.
    — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The rabbi has a baby only a few months old.
    — Scott Murdoch, USA Today, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Two months later, Felder wrote to the rabbis again.
    — Eyal Press, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The next day, the rabbi was asked to name the least expensive meat.
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2023
  • As a rabbi, my life’s work is to teach and share that tradition.
    — Rachel Timoner, New York Daily News, 2 Aug. 2025
  • The rabbi sounded a burst of short blasts, followed by one long blast.
    — Daniel Kool, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2023
  • These Christians and one rabbi could not agree more with this point.
    — Ciera Bates-Chamberlain, Chicago Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026
  • In one photo on the wall, only one young woman stands next to the rabbi.
    — Literary Hub, 12 June 2025
  • Britain’s chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, agrees with Hur.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC news, 1 May 2026
  • The rabbi chose to be buried in the mass grave to comfort the souls of the massacred.
    — Zane Moses, baltimoresun.com, 8 June 2017
  • And my father was their chief rabbi and… chief Rabbi of a town.
    — Marcy Thompson, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Popal was on a train to Brussels from Paris when the rabbi got back to her.
    — Juliet MacUr, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The bride and groom did their own vows in front of their nearly 600 guests and a rabbi.
    — Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Your spouse, your priest/rabbi, your child, your neighbor and your best friend are all going to take the mic.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Or, in this case, a rabbi with a realization.
    — Carolyn Gusoff, CBS News, 22 June 2026
  • During temple, the rabbi asked for a volunteer to come up and dress the torah.
    — Landon Noredman, CNN, 31 May 2017
  • The stranger then began his verbal barrage and tore off part of the rabbi’s clothing.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Then my dear rabbi and friend, Rabbi Dan Levin, called me.
    — Lori Brock, Sun Sentinel, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The rabbi was sitting on the front steps of the building when the suspect approached him and drew a gun.
    — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 8 July 2021
  • One of those attacked was the rabbi’s son, according to the Times.
    — Laura Barcella, PEOPLE.com, 30 Dec. 2019
  • The Hasid stated his business, and to his surprise, the rabbi agreed.
    — Caren Schnur Neile, Sun Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2022
  • The sushi chef works under the guidance of a rabbi, who comes to the restaurant every day to bless the food.
    — Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic, 15 Mar. 2022
  • With his back turned to the man, the rabbi recalls hearing a click, turning around, and seeing a gun.
    — Jack Durschlag, Fox News, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Early in the play, the narrator asks if there is a rabbi in the audience.
    — Michelle F. Solomon, Miami Herald, 12 May 2026
  • The hairdresser and the rabbi stopped coming to the building.
    — John Leland, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2021
  • His Jewish mother, the wife of a rabbi, would not have drawn a cross atop each page of a message to her son.
    — Bryan Greene, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Oct. 2021

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