How to Use deacon in a Sentence

deacon

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  • Some of the deacons are women and the head of the steward board is a woman.
    — Corey Williams, Fox News, 9 Sep. 2018
  • Jerry was a deacon and a church elder, and Rosie sang in the choir and helped the youth group.
    — Ivana Hrynkiw, AL.com, 7 Jan. 2018
  • Three priests and a deacon led, followed by 18 nuns, then the rest of the faithful.
    — Tim Busch, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2021
  • The church will be packed with priests and deacons from the Cleveland diocese.
    — Emily Bamforth, cleveland.com, 15 Aug. 2017
  • Sherry Johnson was raped by a church deacon at the age of nine.
    — Araceli Cruz, Teen Vogue, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Davis, a Catholic deacon from Burbank, plans to walk with Berget from death row to the gurney.
    — Dave Kolpack, The Seattle Times, 26 Oct. 2018
  • My mom was a missionary in our church, and my dad is a deacon.
    — Paul Schrodt, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Video of that would-be shooting showed the moment the man's gun jammed as the deacon dove over a pew and tackled him.
    — Omar Villafranca, CBS News, 13 May 2024
  • Prior to the merger, Ray was a deacon with the old church for roughly 12 years, Mack said.
    — Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The question was whether the ex-deacon, now 84 and enfeebled, would live long enough to hear it.
    — David A. Hammer, NOLA.com, 18 Dec. 2020
  • In Decatur, Snipes, who was training to be a deacon, was one of the first to arrive at her church.
    — Greg Jaffe, Washington Post, 24 May 2021
  • My dad is a lawyer and also a deacon at my childhood church.
    — Marci Alboher, Fortune Well, 12 Apr. 2023
  • That effective date was later moved up to June 1 – the same day the church’s board of deacons met.
    — Tim Funk, charlotteobserver, 9 June 2017
  • Brooks’s mom is a minister and her dad is a church deacon.
    — Leanne Italie, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2019
  • The jokes between innings would get a deacon banned from church.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 20 Aug. 2020
  • Caught in the gunfire was George, a 69-year-old Baptist deacon who tended the block for decades.
    — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Stewart, 55, works as a road foreman and is a church deacon.
    — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 28 Aug. 2021
  • A few years ago, the pastor made Smith an honorary deacon.
    — Helen Ubiñas, Philly.com, 19 June 2017
  • The church guitarist, a deacon and a congregant of 38 years are among those killed by the disease.
    — al, 10 May 2020
  • In the end, the killer wasn’t the cruel ex-boyfriend or the church deacon with a dubious alibi.
    — Washington Post, 1 June 2021
  • Father Michael Duffy lifted up the monstrance, while the deacon rang a bell.
    — Tim Busch, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Richard Dwyer was a disabled veteran and deacon in the Catholic Church.
    — Thomas Weber, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2022
  • Last month, armed gunmen stormed a Port-au-Prince church building and killed a deacon.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2021
  • Among those killed in the attack were the store security guard and a church deacon.
    — Brigid Kennedy, The Week, 1 June 2022
  • Dzhalilov, the math teacher and deacon, and Miller, the musician, were staying a few blocks away.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2022
  • Leonid Dzhalilov, who is forty-three, worked as a high-school math teacher and served as a deacon at a Moscow church.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2022
  • The task force is run by Al Green, a 28-year-old church deacon from Jamaica who stands ready to help at every step.
    — Brian MacQuarrie, BostonGlobe.com, 25 June 2018
  • The pastor, badly mangled, lies next to the deacon, mother and child, both of whom were killed by shrapnel to the head.
    — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Jeffress said deacons are concerned that church records inside the library could be lost.
    — Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 20 July 2024
  • Will the government impose its sense of secularism to be taught in our schools or hold priests and deacons accountable for their preaching the gospel or the teachings of the Church?
    — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 15 July 2024

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