MINISTRY in a Sentence

Learn MINISTRY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

15 example sentences for MINISTRY, such as:

1. Alexey Alexandrovitch was at the ministry.
2. The ministry has said it hopes to avoid compulsory redundancies.
3. He immediately fired off an angry letter to his ministry colleagues.
4. He announced a new ministry to deal with Quebec's threat to separate from Canada.
5. To be acquainted with the merit of ministry, we need only observe the condition of the people.

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 Meanings and Examples of MINISTRY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
ministry
 n.  act of serving; government department, at the administrative level normally headed by a minister
Classic Sentence:
1  At my home in West Virginia the process of being called to the ministry was a very interesting one.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V.
2  It was not long before the bishops and other church leaders began to make careful investigation of the conditions of the ministry, and they found out that I was right.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIV.
3  Very soon public sentiment began making itself felt, in demanding a purifying of the ministry.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIV.
4  He read another article, too, a financial one, which alluded to Bentham and Mill, and dropped some innuendoes reflecting on the ministry.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
5  Alexey Alexandrovitch was at the ministry.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 32
6  Thus, hope and expectation would be kept alive; none would complain of broken promises, but impute their disappointments wholly to fortune, whose shoulders are broader and stronger than those of a ministry.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER VI.
7  He had been a sailor and a harpooneer in his youth, but for many years past had dedicated his life to the ministry.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8. The Pulpit.
8  The public ministry of the day proved its indefatigable zeal in the defence of society, in this instance.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER IV—GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL
Example Sentence:
1  The ministry has said it hopes to avoid compulsory redundancies.
2  To be acquainted with the merit of ministry, we need only observe the condition of the people.
3  Japan's education ministry ordered the change to encourage students to tear themselves away from textbooks.
4  He immediately fired off an angry letter to his ministry colleagues.
5  He announced a new ministry to deal with Quebec's threat to separate from Canada.
6  China has hit back, its foreign ministry urging the Congressional commission to wipe out its prejudice, respect the truth.
7  The ministry has tried to develop a management strategy this year but it has not been implemented because of scarce resources.