How to Use vestment in a Sentence

vestment

noun
  • He was dressed in a miter, the headgear of a bishop, and a red cloak-like vestment.
    — Frances D'emilio, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Some were hiding behind the vestments for the sake of others.
    — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Kentucky’s clergy will soon be able to pack heat under their vestments.
    — Wired Staff, WIRED, 14 Apr. 1998
  • There’s a need for clergy in their vestments to walk hand-in-hand with poor mothers and poor children.
    — Tim Funk, charlotteobserver, 16 Aug. 2017
  • Only his beard breaks the blackness, the white cascading down his vestments.
    — Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, 14 May 2026
  • One recalled the smell of the priest’s polyester liturgical vestments, seared into his brain.
    — Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The group managed to take vestments, the tabernacle and the Holy Host.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2019
  • Now, Alter said, the banners and vestments are in his private storage unit.
    — oregonlive.com, 11 Aug. 2019
  • Claire stumbles across a man in religious vestments preaching.
    — Julie Kosin, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 Nov. 2017
  • Hooded silver and gold gowns had the drape of vestments and the commitment of the true believer.
    — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2020
  • The Pope was pictured lying in a wooden casket wearing red vestments and his bishop’s miter.
    — Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Her Catholic upbringing gave her a fascination with the priest’s act of getting dressed in his vestments.
    — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Green After Easter is over, priests begin wearing green vestments.
    — Madison Alcedo, Country Living, 4 Feb. 2018
  • At the front of the Cathedral near the pulpit, a red vestment stood on display next to a large portrait of the late pope emeritus.
    — Dallas News, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Clothed in an embroidered golden vestment, a piece of paper in hand, Potapov addressed his parishioners.
    — Mariya Manzhos, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The methods of invocation, the forms of the circles, the vestments, even the incenses have changed little, if at all.
    — Kent Russell, Harper's Magazine, 11 May 2022
  • The machine had finished sewing a series of ornate purple crosses into a long sheet of white fabric, to be turned into church vestments.
    — USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2017
  • The most marvelous of all the vestments is a cope embroidered in a workshop in Genoa in the late 17th century.
    — Sarah Kozlowski, Dallas Morning News, 21 Mar. 2026
  • The liturgical garments – such as robes, stoles and hats – worn by the pope and other Christian church officials are known as vestments.
    — Christopher Watson, ABC News, 21 Apr. 2025
  • This past Sunday, Father Matt stopped wearing white and went back to the everyday green vestments.
    — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, SFChronicle.com, 15 Jan. 2020
  • Paisios also held a red vestment called a epitrachelion and medallion on top of Atwood's head, witnesses said.
    — Chelsea Curtis, The Arizona Republic, 8 June 2022
  • Kester pulled his bright vestment over his military cassock, and Skorbach placed a brand-new green helmet on the table beside the candle.
    — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 10 July 2022
  • In a small tailor shop steps from the Vatican, Raniero Mancinelli is putting the final touches to the new pope’s vestments.
    — Nbc News, NBC news, 7 May 2025
  • My vestments consisted of a safety helmet and a full-body harness secured to the Spider’s basket by a chain and carabiner.
    — Cullen Murphy, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2019
  • Stadiums are secular megachurches, where believers gather to share communion, to exalt and mourn, and to don the vestments of faith.
    — John Seabrook, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Wearing bright red vestments, the cardinals processed down the central aisle of the basilica as the Sistine Chapel’s boys’ choir sang.
    — Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2025
  • Seeing someone like Dany actually trying to deal with the vestments of being a queen and [dealing with] factions and guilds and the economy.
    — Scott Meslow, GQ, 14 Aug. 2017
  • And then Frank Daly will be ready for the investiture, bestowing upon this man from the Congo his proper priestly vestments.
    — Thomas Farragher, BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2018
  • The velvet vestment was commissioned for King Charles' mother to wear at her own coronation in 1953.
    — Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 6 May 2023
  • On Tuesday, the first images of Francis’ body were released by the Vatican, showing him in a wooden casket in red vestments.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 22 Apr. 2025

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