man of the cloth
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Before he was a man of the cloth, Prevost was a Chicago South Sider.
From Salon • May 10, 2025
Perhaps his role as a man of the cloth in “Conclave” offset that energy.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2025
Nora Mathison: Luckily, Sarah had a connection to a man, a man of the cloth.
From Scientific American • Sep. 28, 2023
Poitier plays the straight man, as he often did in comedies, allowing Belafonte to have a blast as Reverend Willis Oaks Rutherford, a con artist masquerading as a man of the cloth.
From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2023
People often compared him with his fellow man of the cloth Archbishop Desmond Tutu, but of course that didn’t mean anything to me.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
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