PREACH in a Sentence

preach

 v.  advocate; speak, plead; argue in favor of

1  He was a Baptist preacher, and when he died, two thousand black people followed him to the grave; and now they preach his funeral sermon each year.

The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VII

2  In the earlier days of freedom almost every coloured man who learned to read would receive "a call to preach" within a few days after he began reading.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V.

3  The "calls" to preach, I am glad to say, are not nearly so numerous now as they were formerly, and the calls to some industrial occupation are growing more numerous.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V.

4  In looking about for some one to preach the Thanksgiving sermon, I found one of the rarest men that it has ever been my privilege to know.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X.

5  Before going to Montgomery to look for some one to preach this sermon I had never heard of Mr. Bedford.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X.

6  , rector of Trinity Church, Boston, to preach the Commencement sermon.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XII.

7  I didn't mean to preach or tell tales or be silly.

Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTEEN

8  You may preach as much as you please, but we shall only hate you the more.

The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK II

9  I first got an idea of its calibre when I heard him preach in his own church at Morton.

Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX

10  Bertram," said Henry Crawford, "I shall make a point of coming to Mansfield to hear you preach your first sermon.

Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII

11  I can never hear such a one without the greatest admiration and respect, and more than half a mind to take orders and preach myself.

Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV

12  I could not preach but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition.

Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV

13  I won't tell you that I don't want to preach to you.

The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12

14  If you can preach, I can teach.

Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V

15  Bravo," cried Chateau-Renaud; "you are the first man I ever met sufficiently courageous to preach egotism.

The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 40. The Breakfast.

1  If the beard were all, the goat might preach.

2  The world people preach down terrorism and violence.

3  Preachers can talk but never teach, Unless they practise what they preach.

4  They continue to preach their gospel of self - reliance.

5  We fail to preach down the people.

6  They preach the abolition of established systems but prose nothing to replace them.

7  They preach the abolition of established systems but propose nothing to replace them.

8  You have no right to preach to me, you neophyte, that have not passed the porch of life, and are absolutely unacquainted with its mysteries."

9  The friar preached against stealing and had a goose in his sleeve.

10  She preached economy as the best means of solving the crisis.

11  The vicar preached to the congregation for half an hour.

12  It kind of made him drunk, as you may say, and he didn't know nothing at all the rest of the day, and preached a prayer-meeting sermon that night that gave him a rattling ruputation, because the oldest man in the world couldn't a understood it.

13  These misguided people go around preaching up violence.

14  Christ began preaching to large crowds.

15  My sister has been preaching at me again about my lack of neatness.