SEMINARY in a Sentence

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And he imagined the consternation and the ejaculations of his mother and the young lady at the seminary as they drank his recitals.

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 Meanings and Examples of SEMINARY
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seminary
 n.  school, especially a theological school for training of priests, ministers, or rabbis; school of higher education, especially for girls
Classic Sentence:
1  Every bishop who possesses the least influence has about him his patrol of cherubim from the seminary, which goes the round, and maintains good order in the episcopal palace, and mounts guard over monseigneur's smile.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME
2  In this way he came to the prefecture, then to the seminary.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
3  ; the pupils in the seminary, these tender levities; errors imputed to newspapers, the imposture which distills its venom through the columns of those organs; etc.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FO...
4  Thenardier had that peculiar rectilinear something about his gestures which, accompanied by an oath, recalls the barracks, and by a sign of the cross, the seminary.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS
5  I had been at the seminary from nine years old; in three days I should have been twenty.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 26 ARAMIS AND HIS THESIS
6  From his home he had gone to the seminary to bid adieu to many schoolmates.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
7  And he imagined the consternation and the ejaculations of his mother and the young lady at the seminary as they drank his recitals.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
8  Had a lively time in my seminary this morning, for the children acted like Sancho, and at one time I really thought I should shake them all round.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
9  After marching through a number of streets the patrol arrested five more Russian suspects: a small shopkeeper, two seminary students, a peasant, and a house serf, besides several looters.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXXIV
Example Sentence:
1  Sure of his priestly vocation, Terrence planned to pursue his theological training at the local Roman Catholic seminary.
2  The archbishop of Moscow and one high-ranking prelate visited the Russian Orthodox seminary.