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73 example sentences for CLERGYMAN, such as:
1. They deemed the young clergyman a miracle of holiness.
2. The clergyman's shy and sensitive reserve had balked this scheme.
3. The sensitive clergyman shrank, with nervous dread, from the light missile.
4. Tom tapped his thick fingers together like a clergyman and leaned back in his chair.
5. Old Roger Chillingworth, with a smile on his face, whispered something in the young clergyman's ear.
2. The clergyman's shy and sensitive reserve had balked this scheme.
3. The sensitive clergyman shrank, with nervous dread, from the light missile.
4. Tom tapped his thick fingers together like a clergyman and leaned back in his chair.
5. Old Roger Chillingworth, with a smile on his face, whispered something in the young clergyman's ear.
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Meanings and Examples of CLERGYMAN
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clergyman
n. a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church
Classic Sentence: (71 in 5 pages)
1 Tom tapped his thick fingers together like a clergyman and leaned back in his chair.
2 "Never," replied Hester Prynne, looking, not at Mr. Wilson, but into the deep and troubled eyes of the younger clergyman.
3 Old Roger Chillingworth, with a smile on his face, whispered something in the young clergyman's ear.
4 Such was the young clergyman's condition, and so imminent the prospect that his dawning light would be extinguished, all untimely, when Roger Chillingworth made his advent to the town.
5 Ah," replied Roger Chillingworth, with that quietness, which, whether imposed or natural, marked all his deportment, "it is thus that a young clergyman is apt to speak.
6 This diabolical agent had the Divine permission, for a season, to burrow into the clergyman's intimacy, and plot against his soul.
7 "They mostly do," said the clergyman, griping hard at his breast, as if afflicted with an importunate throb of pain.
8 "It may be so," said the young clergyman, indifferently, as waiving a discussion that he considered irrelevant or unseasonable.
9 The sensitive clergyman shrank, with nervous dread, from the light missile.
10 "I do verily believe it," answered the clergyman.
11 I did," answered the clergyman, "and would gladly learn it.
12 "Then I need ask no further," said the clergyman, somewhat hastily rising from his chair.
13 After the incident last described, the intercourse between the clergyman and the physician, though externally the same, was really of another character than it had previously been.
14 The clergyman's shy and sensitive reserve had balked this scheme.
15 They deemed the young clergyman a miracle of holiness.
Example Sentence:
1 "I am sorry my mite is insufficient, my friend," said the clergyman, without again raising his eyes, "it is all I have at present to bestow."
2 The explanation of the intent of matrimony was gone through; and then the clergyman walked a step further forward, and, bending slightly towards him.