ARCHBISHOP in a Sentence

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What he aspired to was the union of southern Anglian peoples under the leadership of a Mercian king and a Mercian archbishop.

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 Meanings and Examples of ARCHBISHOP
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
archbishop
 n.  a bishop of highest rank
Classic Sentence:
1  The prioress could do nothing; the archbishop had spoken.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V—DISTRACTIONS
2  It was the opening of the door of seclusion, a frightful sheet of iron bristling with bolts which only turned on its hinges in the presence of the archbishop.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VII—SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS
3  With the exception of the archbishop and the gardener, no man entered the convent, as we have already said.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VII—SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS
4  The archbishop, the kislar-aga of heaven, locked up and kept watch over this seraglio of souls reserved for God.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT
5  Upon the occasion of the archbishop's next visit, the prioress recounted the affair to his Grace, making something of a confession at the same time, and yet boasting of her deed.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VIII—A SUCCESSFUL INTERROGATORY
6  And the two children followed him as they would have followed an archbishop.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
7  In the sacred college, you know, of cardinals and archbishops and bishops there were two men who held out against it while the others were all for it.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
Example Sentence:
1  The monarch looks to the archbishop for spiritual direction.
2  Desmond Tutu became the most famous Anglican archbishop in South Africa.
3  What he aspired to was the union of southern Anglian peoples under the leadership of a Mercian king and a Mercian archbishop.
4  The archbishop of Moscow and one high-ranking prelate visited the Russian Orthodox seminary.