Vicar

//ˈvɪkɚ//

"Vicar" in a Sentence (12 examples)

The vicar often refers to the Bible in his sermon.

The vicar wore drab clothing.

More tea, vicar?

Yanni is a vicar.

Yanni thanked the vicar.

Ziri argued with the vicar.

Rumour has it that the vicar has lost his faith.

Near-synonyms: priest, rector, curate

Hester Earle and Violet Wayne were moving about the aisle with bundles of wheat-ears and streamers of ivy, for the harvest thanksgiving was shortly to be celebrated, while the vicar stood waiting for their directions on the chancel steps with a great handful of crimson gladioli.

All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion[…] such talk had been distressingly out of place.

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For this [annual choir outing] the vicar traditionally hired a brake, an ancient, Edwardian, horse-drawn, bus-like vehicle which had plodded along for many years between Ramsgate and Pegwell Bay, carrying passengers who were in no hurry, until it became so unroadworthy that no horse could be persuaded to pull it on a regular basis.

Near-synonyms: proxy, representative, agent

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