ABBOT in a Sentence

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Example sentences for ABBOT, such as:

1. The abbots buried him themselves.
2. In another, a barber, an abbot, and two cardinals.

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 Meanings and Examples of ABBOT
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abbot
 n.  a man who is the head of an abbey of monks
Classic Sentence:
1  In another, a barber, an abbot, and two cardinals.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER VIII.
2  Certainly," quoth Athelstane, "women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
3  The abbots buried him themselves.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
Example Sentence:
1  Monks are rattled: the one manning Guanyin's donation box fears such undisguised moneymaking would turn their shrine into a temple run by CEO abbot.