How to Use seminary in a Sentence

seminary

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  • His body was found on the side of a road near the seminary.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2019
  • The man had quit the seminary and fallen in love with a former nun.
    — jsonline.com, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Cat went to seminary on the West Coast and the family went, too.
    — John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al.com, 3 July 2019
  • Clare Hall was built in 1955 and sits behind the seminary.
    — Sophie Carson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2021
  • In the first of two new episodes, Mac (Rob McElhenney) spends the day at a seminary with a young priest.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2021
  • What that means is six years going through the seminary at St. Mary’s.
    — Karen Zurawski, Houston Chronicle, 14 July 2019
  • By then, Andrew was feeling a call to join the seminary.
    — Clara Hatcher, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2018
  • In her post, Cline shows a welcome sign at the seminary at Layton High School.
    — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Federico is now 33 years old and has spent five years at the seminary.
    — SI.com, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Celia Paul was born in 1959 in India, where her father was head of a seminary.
    — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Pell is expected to spend the holy weekend in a seminary in New South Wales to await the decision of the court.
    — Lucie Morris-Marr, CNN, 29 Mar. 2018
  • There is a library, a function hall, sports grounds, a seminary, a school, and a temple.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 4 July 2020
  • The seminary’s alumni founded the Taliban movement and ruled Afghanistan in the 1990s.
    — New York Times, 25 Nov. 2021
  • The two men were once students in the seminary, a college for men training to become priests.
    — Kaylee Remington, cleveland, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Carlo first went to a seminary, in preparation for a career in the Church.
    — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022
  • And two years later, while still in the seminary, the future pope was conscripted into the German army and sent to the front.
    — Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 31 Dec. 2022
  • The story was published as the seminary's board was meeting.
    — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 23 May 2018
  • In Mundelein Hall, guests could browse photos and artifacts that showed the planning of the seminary in its early days.
    — James T. Norman, chicagotribune.com, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Perhaps the best lesson is that the White House should avoid becoming a seminary.
    — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 15 June 2018
  • During his brief time at the seminary, Johnson had studied Latin and Greek.
    — Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Hillel Yaniv was a staff sergeant who served in the Israeli Navy and was in a study program at a religious seminary at the time he was killed.
    — Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2023
  • Pritchard joined the seminary at age 14 and became an ordained Catholic priest 12 years later.
    — Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 4 Dec. 2022
  • The seminary named an endowed professor’s chair in his honor in the 1960s.
    — Peter Smith, The Courier-Journal, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Leonard, who once taught at the Louisville seminary, said Mohler must make amends with Baptist mega-church pastors who adore the president.
    — Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 26 Apr. 2020
  • Balken drove up the seminary's long driveway before stopping in the parking lot.
    — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Seventeen-year-old Noel has left the seminary and come to live with grandparents.
    — Star Tribune, 23 Apr. 2021
  • The Bethany United position was his first job since leaving the seminary, Lee said.
    — Anna Gaca, Billboard, 5 Sep. 2017
  • Barclay finished seminary and went to work as the youth director at a United Methodist church in Austin.
    — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 8 June 2017
  • During the meeting with Italian bishops at the Vatican last week, there was discussion of whether to admit gay men to Catholic seminaries in preparation for the priesthood.
    — Jason Derose, NPR, 28 May 2024
  • The conscription waiver keeps some of the community in seminaries and out of the workforce, hindering economic growth and placing a welfare burden on middle-class taxpayers.
    — Maayan Lubell, USA TODAY, 25 June 2024

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