How to Use seminary in a Sentence

seminary

noun
  • The man had quit the seminary and fallen in love with a former nun.
    — jsonline.com, 4 Oct. 2017
  • That seems odd for somebody in seminary.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2026
  • What was once an old seminary is now one of the most beautiful hotels in the city.
    — Lori Keong, Architectural Digest, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Zaragoza had dropped out of seminary to join the army but was refused admission.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 4 May 2026
  • Federico is now 33 years old and has spent five years at the seminary.
    — SI.com, 3 Oct. 2017
  • There is a library, a function hall, sports grounds, a seminary, a school, and a temple.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 4 July 2020
  • The two men were once students in the seminary, a college for men training to become priests.
    — Kaylee Remington, cleveland, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Cat went to seminary on the West Coast and the family went, too.
    — John Archibald | [email protected], al.com, 3 July 2019
  • Arafi has spent most of his life in the seminary and will be no match for the military power players in the regime.
    — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Balken drove up the seminary's long driveway before stopping in the parking lot.
    — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2023
  • How did those concerns inform your decision to go to seminary?
    — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The seminary has not become an endangered species.
    — Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The next day, I was invited to the seminary where the deacons lived and studied.
    — Kristine Tran, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Carlo first went to a seminary, in preparation for a career in the Church.
    — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022
  • At the same time, her father was on sabbatical leave at a Methodist seminary.
    — courant.com, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Downstairs, the room that was once the seminary’s barber shop is now a moody cocktail bar with live music on the weekends.
    — Harry Cheadle, Bon Appetit Magazine, 27 May 2026
  • Seventeen-year-old Noel has left the seminary and come to live with grandparents.
    — Star Tribune, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Qom is considered a holy city, home to Iran’s largest and most famous Shia seminary.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 22 June 2025
  • He gets taken in by a group of women and girls ensconced in a rural Southern seminary.
    — Michael Heaton, cleveland.com, 23 June 2017
  • Fast-forward again to graduate seminary and my call to ordained ministry.
    — Lee Rood, Des Moines Register, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Last week, a Taliban cleric was killed by a suicide bomber in a Kabul seminary.
    — Susannah George and Haq Nawaz Khan, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Perhaps the best lesson is that the White House should avoid becoming a seminary.
    — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 15 June 2018
  • In her post, Cline shows a welcome sign at the seminary at Layton High School.
    — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Joffe and Schuster have sparred intensely over the future of the two seminaries.
    — Toby Axelrod, Sun Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2023
  • During his brief time at the seminary, Johnson had studied Latin and Greek.
    — Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2022
  • The former seminary's crypt now houses the Wine Grotto.
    — Kristine Hansen, Travel + Leisure, 22 June 2026
  • Some of these were hatched at the English College, a seminary in the French city of Rheims.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Celia Paul was born in 1959 in India, where her father was head of a seminary.
    — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 29 Oct. 2020
  • And two years later, while still in the seminary, the future pope was conscripted into the German army and sent to the front.
    — Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 31 Dec. 2022
  • And the theory of the case is that by talking about religion and his background in seminary, that that will offset the issues.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2026

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