Example Sentences

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“I’ve been preaching long enough to know that I am preaching to the choir,” Mr. Warnock, the pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church, said on Sunday at a Black church in Athens.

From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2022

You may also wonder if I am preaching to the choir; doesn’t everyone reading this story already appreciate print?

From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2018

Of course, I am preaching to myself as much as I am talking to you, reader.

From Newsweek

With this explanation, forwardness becomes a grace, and maternal importunity receives the name of a virtue.—But the parson stays, while I preposterously assume his office; I am preaching, while the bride is on the threshold.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Lamb, Charles

“I am preaching to myself as well as to you,” said the Doctor in the course of his sermon; and such was in reality the case. 

From The Religious Life of London by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)