Sentence examples for priests from high-quality English sources.

• The problem is the lack of priests.

• The priests said they didn’t have one.

• At least nine priests have been reinstated.

• Others have urged the acceptance of female priests.

• Of that class, 32 priests have been accused of abuse.

• Ahkin, “he of the sun,” was the priests’ general title.

• Will the Roman Catholic Church ever ordain priests who are not men?

• Priests played an important role in the religious life of some tribes.

Use priests in a sentence.

• “Right now we have neither priests nor gay paedophile priests.

• One of the priests calmed him down and explained that they were Germans—allies.

• But the priests were cheating, because they had something else, too: Nilometers.

• (Some priests were counted more than once if they abused in more than one region.)

• Priests “simply have cassocks; they are not saints,” says the film’s director Wojciech Smarzowski.

• THE archdiocese of Boston has given the police the names of over 80 priests suspected of sexual abuse.

• Priests were recruited as informants on other priests: by 1953, a thousand Polish priests were in jail.

• “It does not chronicle abuse committed by religious-order priests in Colorado or by Diocesan priests before they were ordained,” the report said.

priests sentence examples

• Many parishes have buildings or rooms named after accused priests, he said, and a conference center and a retirement residence for priests are named after former bishops.

• Investigators in Colorado released a report on Wednesday on child sex abuse by Roman Catholic priests that chronicled the abuse of 166 children at the hands of 43 priests across the state since 1950, with most of the acts committed by just five priests who abused 102 children.

• The data, together with extensive interviews with priests and former priests, abuse victims, church historians, psychologists and experts on sexual disorders, suggest that although the problem involved only a small percentage of priests, it was deeply embedded in the culture of the Catholic priesthood.

• The experts offered several possible explanations: that priests simply had more unfettered access to boys; that priests who had had their first sexual encounters in seminaries were more likely to be attracted to boys; that a high percentage of priests were gay; that women and girls hesitated to report such abuse for fear they would be accused of inviting the attention.