How to Use vicar in a Sentence

vicar

noun
  • Now, of course, having Alphy as the vicar has opened her mind.
    — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 14 June 2026
  • There's good news for fans who are craving more of their favorite crime-solving vicar.
    — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The vicar, who had a long-term smoking habit, wasn’t poisoned, the study determined.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 2 May 2025
  • And that's when Villanelle writes the name of the vicar's dead wife on a post-it and slaps it on his forehead.
    — Kat Rosenfield, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Not to give away her secrets, but never, ever bet against a vicar’s wife in a British mystery.
    — Yvonne Zipp, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 May 2023
  • The story involves a woman, believed dead, a vicar who steals her emerald ring, and the bad end that comes to him.
    — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 30 Sep. 2022
  • One centers on Kurtan’s efforts to get a lift from the local vicar to a nearby mall.
    — David Segal, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2020
  • The vicar says the couple's generosity is a sign of their commitment.
    — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 8 June 2023
  • That relationship was based on sinners confessing their sins to this vicar.
    — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 14 June 2026
  • The vicar has always been a desirable figure in Grantchester.
    — Mandi Bierly, TVLine, 30 June 2024
  • His friendship with the vicars has given him a different perspective on life.
    — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 14 June 2026
  • Sister Mary Thomas, the vicar, had come from Wisconsin to witness the event.
    — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
  • One of the speakers recalled when Vasquez, as a vicar, was asked by church members to shoo away a man outside the church who was viewed as a vagrant.
    — Elaine Ayala, ExpressNews.com, 24 Dec. 2019
  • In such cases, the day-to-day running of the diocese shifts to an auxiliary bishop, a vicar general or someone else.
    — Nicole Winfield, ajc, 7 June 2023
  • Tom Brittney will play Will Davenport, the new vicar of Grantchester.
    — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 28 Mar. 2019
  • So Elizabeth has to suck it up, even though going to see her best friend involves having to hear a vicar go on and on about the shelves or whatever.
    — Helen Nianias, refinery29.com, 18 July 2022
  • Here's Villanelle, pushed to the fringes of the group, humiliated by the vicar who has no business judging anyone.
    — Kat Rosenfield, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Thankfully, the book was saved by being thrown out of a window by a local vicar, Johann Erichsons.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 25 Dec. 2025
  • Essie, the vicar’s wife in Chloe Marr, cannot believe that the beautiful and glamorous Chloe was ever happy.
    — Literary Hub, 8 Dec. 2025
  • In 1946, Robin returned to England, receiving a post as the vicar of South Wigston.
    — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 30 Nov. 2019
  • The charge against the vicar, Pavlo Lebid, came as Russian forces pounded targets along the front line in eastern Ukraine, killing at least five civilians.
    — Yurii Shyvala, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2023
  • The trio of vicars starts with James Norton as Sidney Chambers, the doe-eyed clergyman with a taste for cool jazz and clever women.
    — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 14 June 2026
  • Fast forward two years, after a period of poor mental health following my injury, the realization of the vicar’s sentence really hit.
    — Abigail Wise, Outside, 3 Jan. 2026
  • The chapel vicar Cardinal Baldo Reina has issued a statement on the matter, but has not weighed in on whether the angel’s face is that of the prime minister.
    — Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Money, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Especially from Robson’s point of view, Geordie, because that relationship of vicar and detective had become so strong.
    — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 14 June 2026
  • Nearly every murder is solved by the end of the episode, but despite the unusual twist of having the village vicar team up with the police, the real action comes from the relationships among the characters.
    — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 14 June 2026
  • All three vicars show a passion not just for ministering to their flock but for helping Geordie solve an unending series of murders and crimes of passion in the sleepy village of Grantchester and the worldly nearby city of Cambridge.
    — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 14 June 2026
  • The sacred meets the secular in this long-running pairing of a young vicar with a worldly police detective in the titular idyllic Cambridgeshire village during the 1950s and ‘60s.
    — Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2026
  • While Will is feverishly negotiating with a powerful vicar who wants to censor Love’s Labor’s Lost, he is devastated by the 1596 loss of his son to the plague.
    — Peter Bart, Deadline, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Aquila served as a parochial vicar in two parishes from 1976 to 1982 and then as pastor at Denver’s Guardian Angels Parish from 1982 to 1987.
    — Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 19 Sep. 2025

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