PREACHER in a Sentence

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For PREACHER, below is one of 47 sentences:
The Norwegian preacher's wife went to Lena and told her she ought not to allow this; she begged Lena to come to church on Sundays.

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 Meanings and Examples of PREACHER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
preacher
 n.  a person who delivers a sermon publicly
Classic Sentence: (42 in 3 pages)
1  And she thought with a tingling in her heart how she and Ashley might ride swiftly through this beauty of blossom and greenery this very afternoon, or tonight by moonlight, toward Jonesboro and a preacher.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  You talk like a Baptist preacher making a recruiting speech.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
3  I goes in, pious as Widow Bogart, and sits still and never cracks a smile while the preacher is favoring us with his misinformation on evolution.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
4  It was a negro church; and the preacher's text was about the blackness of darkness, and the weeping and wailing and teeth-gnashing there.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2. The Carpet-Bag.
5  There was a low rumbling of heavy sea-boots among the benches, and a still slighter shuffling of women's shoes, and all was quiet again, and every eye on the preacher.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
6  While he was speaking these words, the howling of the shrieking, slanting storm without seemed to add new power to the preacher, who, when describing Jonah's sea-storm, seemed tossed by a storm himself.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
7  The Norwegian preacher's wife went to Lena and told her she ought not to allow this; she begged Lena to come to church on Sundays.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
8  She declared she had heard grandmother was going to make a Baptist preacher of me.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XII
9  If you're going to be a preacher, I want you to marry me.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XII
10  I told her I didn't know what they believed, and didn't care, and that I certainly wasn't going to be a preacher.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XII
11  The faint glimmer of fear became a terror of spirit as the hoarse voice of the preacher blew death into his soul.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
12  The preacher's knife had probed deeply into his disclosed conscience and he felt now that his soul was festering in sin.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
13  The preacher took a chainless watch from a pocket within his soutane and, having considered its dial for a moment in silence, placed it silently before him on the table.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
14  The preacher began to speak in a quiet friendly tone.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
15  Mr. Kernan restored his hat to its original position on his knee and presented an attentive face to the preacher.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
Example Sentence:
1  William's presence by so much as a purr or a claw, and I have noticed that the agnostic is the only creature living who can treat a preacher with so much contempt.
2  The crowd jeered preacher's apocalyptic predictions of doom at the street.
3  But pretty soon they see that long-legged undertaker make a sign to the preacher as much as to say, "Don't you worry -- just depend on me.
4  When the preacher held her nose and dunked her, she went completely rigid.
5  Edwards is a Methodist lay preacher and social worker.