How to Use sacristy in a Sentence

sacristy

noun
  • The walls of the sacristy still have chipped paint and water damage.
    — Sophie Carson, jsonline.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The sacristy, a tiny room next to the altar, is packed with bad memories.
    — Ben Wedeman, CNN, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Deacon Joe even made sure there was always Kleenex in the sacristy.
    — Chuck Gibson, Cincinnati.com, 31 Oct. 2017
  • One hundred and thirty-six children died in a church sacristy, which had been raked with bullets and then set on fire.
    — New York Times, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Only the original kitchen, new bathrooms and former sacristy had four walls.
    — Dallas News, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Moreno helps restore the mission's sacristy, a room where the priests prepare for services and that holds items used for worship.
    — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Some lady, a church worker in a floral dress, was moving cardboard boxes from the altar to the sacristy.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 22 May 2017
  • In the sacristy, three bullets perforated a life-size painting of Christ.
    — José De Córdoba |, WSJ, 23 July 2018
  • Among its features, the new space will contain two confessional rooms, a working sacristy and a vesting room.
    — Victoria Le, Oc Register, 26 Apr. 2026
  • He was accused of molesting the boys in the cathedral’s sacristy, or dressing-room, after a Sunday mass.
    — The Economist, 8 Apr. 2020
  • One of Michelangelo's first sculptures is on display here—a crucifix, hanging in one of the sacristies, or rooms of the church.
    — Samantha Leal, Marie Claire, 23 Sep. 2015
  • There is hardly a trace of the convent on the main floor, where the summer dining room once housed a chapel and a comfortable sitting room once contained a sacristy.
    — J.s. Marcus, WSJ, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Hand sanitizers sat on a table in Our Lady of Guadalupe’s foyer, and near the sacristy.
    — Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2021
  • Records show that builders added a second floor to the sacristy during the 1380s, when construction work was taking place across the monastic complex.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Aug. 2020
  • The garments themselves tell a story of celebrating the sacristy of women and embracing the divine feminine that is.
    — Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Patronato is focusing on conserving mural art and plaster walls in the mission's sacristy, and treating a set of historic original doors.
    — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The original tiles in the sacristy and in the baptistery were not able to be saved, however, because they were ruined by flooding in the aftermath of firefighting efforts.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2022
  • In a lawsuit filed in federal district court Tuesday, Rink is accused of molesting the boy in the sacristy, the room in a church where a priest prepares for a service.
    — USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2017
  • If anybody can dispel the cobwebs and vapors that have collected in the Plath sacristy, Dakota and Dunst can (fingers crossed).
    — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 26 Jan. 2017
  • The Jalisco state prosecutor’s office said early indications suggest two men entered the sacristy, fired directly at the priest and then fled in a car.
    — Peter Orsi, The Seattle Times, 21 Apr. 2018
  • There, equipment was installed so the bell stays stationary and is rung by a moving internal clapper that is controlled electronically by a switch in the sacristy, Flanagan said.
    — Leonor Vivanco-Prengaman, chicagotribune.com, 9 Dec. 2017
  • Layton argued that a decision in favor of the church would open a Pandora's sacristy of demands by religious organizations on the public purse.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 19 Apr. 2017
  • In 1836, the church, still roofless except for the sacristy, where women and children found refuge, functioned as a cannon station during the famed early morning battle.
    — Scott Huddleston, ExpressNews.com, 13 Nov. 2020
  • In the 1836 siege and battle, the nave had a dirt ramp leading to a platform where Texians fired three cannons above the altar area while women and children kept refuge in the sacristy.
    — Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, 31 May 2021
  • The assaults included fondling and groping of the boy’s genitals and on one occasion the abuse occurred in the sacristy of the parish while the boy was preparing the altar for Mass, the lawsuit alleges.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2021
  • The burglars also apparently cut into a safe in the church's sacristy, but there was nothing inside, according to WABC.
    — Mark Osborne, ABC News, 30 May 2022
  • Per a statement provided to Smithsonian magazine, medieval clergy members may have also gathered in the sacristy to prepare for processions into the main church.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Aug. 2020
  • Conservation professionals already have documented frescoes that have been verified inside the church sacristy, which had a stone roof and was used as a worship space by the mission Indians.
    — Scott Huddleston, ExpressNews.com, 13 Nov. 2020
  • An additional allegation of abuse emerged during the committal hearing, of an incident at a sacristy at St Patrick's Cathedral in Melbourne.
    — Lucie Morris-Marr, CNN, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Russia will be something of the elephant in the sacristy, however, given how the Vatican has been loath to openly criticize Moscow or its powerful Orthodox Church.
    — Fox News, 21 Sep. 2018

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