Sample Sentences for
officiate
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  • We liked our judicial bosses so much that we asked them to officiate our wedding.†  (source)
  • As was customary, a representative from one of the other five Earthen countries had been selected to officiate the coronation in order to show that the other countries would honor and respect the new sovereign's right to govern.†  (source)
  • The school minister did not usually officiate morning chapel; the most frequent officiant was the headmaster himself.†  (source)
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  • The voice of the officiating inmate had just become audible.†  (source)
  • Major Robinson, who ran the prison, would officiate at the tournaments.†  (source)
  • Four weeks later, in a wedding ceremony officiated by Reverend Phillips at Cecy's parents' house, the hero finally got the girl.†  (source)
  • At the start of the winter term of our tenth-grade year at Gravesend Academy, the school's gouty minister—the Rev. Mr. Scammon, the officiant of the academy's nondenominational faith and the lackluster teacher of our Religion and Scripture classes—cracked his head on the icy steps of Hurd's Church and failed to regain consciousness.†  (source)
  • Officiates as a kind of Gentleman Usher, in bringing various People together†  (source)
  • We've probably conducted a dozen weddings at our house, with Alan officiating most of them.†  (source)
  • His eyes briefly flicked from Max's to his officiate.†  (source)
  • Ordinarily Putin would have officiated, reading some Pravda editorials, followed by selected quotations from the works of Lenin and a discussion of the lessons to be learned from the readings.†  (source)
  • The school minister did not usually officiate morning chapel; the most frequent officiant was the headmaster himself.†  (source)
  • Once the omens fell, and came to rest on the cloth (or, to any spectators' dread, rolled off the cloth and away somewhere harder to interpret), the priest officiating was supposed to identify the pattern, match it with its associated passage of scripture, and recite that for those present.†  (source)
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